Life Story of Rasmus B. Anderson

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Author: Rasmus Bjørn Anderson

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Published: 1915

Total Pages: 718

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Rasmus Anderson (1846-1936), the American author, scholar, editor, businessman and diplomat, intertwines his life story with the cultural and institutional history of the Norwegian-American community as a whole. There are eyewitness accounts of tension within American factions and branches of the Lutheran church over such issues as slavery and public education as well as anecdotes about Ole Bull, Knut Hamsun, Björnstjerne Björnson, Robert La Follette, James G. Blaine and various European monarchs and heads of state. Anderson began his life on a farm in Albion, Dane County, Wisconsin. After many efforts to finance and obtain the kind of education he wanted, he pioneered the study and teaching of Scandinavian languages at the University of Wisconsin (1869-1883). Between 1885 and 1889, he served as U.S. minister to Denmark. He eventually prospered as president of the Wisconsin Life Insurance Co., from 1895-1922. In 1874, Anderson attracted widespread attention with his America Not Discovered By Columbus. He is remembered for his studies, translations, and retellings of Norse mythology. The more active and public aspects of his life are emphasized in this work.

Life Story of Rasmus B. Anderson (Classic Reprint)

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Author: Rasmus Bjorn Anderson

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Published: 2015-07-04

Total Pages: 710

ISBN-13: 9781330677971

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Excerpt from Life Story of Rasmus B. Anderson After long and repeated urging on the part of many friends, Prof. Rasmus B. Anderson has undertaken the writing of his autobiography which he has also consented to give to the readers of this paper in installments, beginning with the opening of the new year. Prof. Anderson's career has been interesting from many points of view. His parents were among the earliest Norwegian settlers in this country, so that his story reaches back and practically covers the whole period of Norwegian settlement. He was a member of the first class to graduate from Luther College at Decorah, Iowa, was the first man to hold a chair in Scandinavian languages and literature in an American university, and was the first of Scandinavian parentage to represent our country abroad, serving as United States minister to Denmark from 1885 to 1889. He has also written and translated numerous books dealing with Scandinavian history and literature. In the American supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica he is called the father of Norwegian literature in America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Life Story of Rasmus B. Anderson

Life Story of Rasmus B. Anderson PDF

Author: Rasmus Bjö Anderson

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9781230266244

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Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1915 edition. Extrait: ...manage him. Bjornson got tired and disgusted with all her plans of making him a subject of exhibition. He would not be handled in this way. He was bound to "gang his own gait" and was not willing to put on full dress at the bidding of Mrs. Bull. Nor was he able to endure the American customs of visits, dinners, and receptions. There was a rigidness about them unbearable to a man of Bjornson's antecedents and temperament. At times he could not help being what was thought positively rude. I being the one he knew best in the west he wrote to me again and again complaining most bitterly and telling me that his life in Cambridge and Boston was unendurable. I invited him to come to Madison and told him I would arrange a series of lectures for him among his countrymen in America, just as I had previously done for Kristofer Janson. Finally it came to a break between him and Mrs. Bull and her family. There was a terrible scene, Bjornson swearing vengeance on all of them. He fled. He had money enough to take him to New York; there he visited his old Danish friend, Clemens Petersen. It was Petersen who first introduced Bjornson to his Danish readers. Petersen was looked upon as one of the most gifted esthetical writers that Denmark ever produced. In America he mastered the English language completely and did much encyclopedia and magazine work. From Clemens Petersen Bjornson borrowed money to take him to Madison. Mrs. Bull, Mrs. Thorpe and Mr. Thorpe got frightened and wanted to make peace with Bjornson. They traced him to Chicago. Bjornson was at the Palmer House and Mrs. Bull and the Thorpes at the Grand Pacific. They wanted me as a mediator. They telegraphed for Mrs. Anderson and me to come to...

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