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Aasmund Olavsson Vinje (6 April 1818 – 30 July 1870) was a Norwegian poet and journalist who is remembered for poetry, travel writing, and his pioneering use of Landsmål (now known as Nynorsk).[1]

Aasmund Olavsson Vinje
Born	Aasmund Olavsson Vinje (1818-04-06)6 April 1818 Vinje, Telemark, Norway
Died	30 July 1870(1870-07-30) (aged 52) Gran in Hadeland, Oppland, Norway
Occupation	Journalist, poet, essayist
Nationality	Norwegian

Background

Vinje was born into a poor but well-read family in Vinje, Telemark. He had a voracious appetite for learning and supported himself in part by teaching. He earned his university entrance exam after attending the same school as Henrik Ibsen, studied law, and became an attorney.

Career

In 1858 Vinje founded the periodical Dølen (The dales-man), in which he published travel accounts and editorial comments on art, language and politics that serve as records for the period in which he lived. Dølen ceased publication in 1870.

Vinje did much to articulate the difference between urban and rural life in Norway and was among the sophisticated exponents of Norwegian romantic nationalism. But he was also known for his critical scepticism and "dual vision" (Norwegian: tvisyn)—looking at both sides of the coin. He was politically active to the extent that the government fired him as an attorney for criticizing its foreign policy.

Among his writings, the Ferdaminni fraa Sumaren 1860 (Travel memories from the summer of 1860, translated into English as Travel memories from Norway 1860) is highly esteemed in Norwegian literature, describing a journey on foot from Oslo to Trondheim in order to cover the coronation of King Charles in the Nidarosdomen cathedral for Dølen. The work deals more warm-heartedly with the ordinary people he met on his journey than with the royalty he encountered at the coronation.

In 1863 he wrote A Norseman's View of Britain and the British, which was translated into Norwegian ten years later.

Some of Vinje's poetry is still very much alive in Norway, especially Ved Rundarne (English: At Rondane) and Våren (English: The Last Spring), which Edvard Grieg set to music.

Grieg set many of Vinje's poems, and in 1881 published Tolv Melodier til Digte af A. O. Vinje (English: Twelve melodies to Poems of A. O. Vinje, for voice and piano), Opus 33, which includes The Last Spring and At Rondane.[2] [3]

Dying of stomach cancer, Vinje decided to spend his last days in the countryside. He died as a guest of his friend, minister (later bishop) Anton Christian Bang at Gran in Hadeland on 30 July 1870 and is buried nearby in the churchyard of the Sister churches at Granavollen (Søsterkirkene). In 1873, a large monument with a bust of Vinje by Brynjulf Bergslien was erected at the site.[4]

Today, there are Vinje paths in several Norwegian cities and towns, including Oslo, Stavanger, Trondheim, Moss, Fjellhamar, Corby, Hamar, Gjøvik, Rjukan, Skien and Mandal.

Slogan

A 2014 Dagsavisen article said that Vinje coined the most Norwegian of slogans, "Det er saa viktig aa kosa seg!":[5] "It is so important to enjoy oneself!"

Selected works

• En Ballade om Kongen og Kongehuset (1853)
• Ferdaminni fraa Sumaren 1860 (1861)
• A Norseman's View of Britain and the British (1863)
• Diktsamling (1864)
• Storegut (1866)
• Blandkorn (1867)
• Dølen i eiget Hus atter (1868)
• Um vaart nationale Stræv (1869)

Memorials

• In 1918, a statue of Vinje was erected in Skien
• In 1947, a bronze statue in full figure by Knut Skinnarland (1909–1993) was placed at the Vinjar community hall in Vinje, near Vinjestoga
• In 1959, a memorial was raised to Vinje at Eidsbugarden where he had a private hut
• In 1968 for the 150th anniversary of Vinje's birth the Posten Norge released a stamp with a portrait of Vinje
• In 1968, a statue of Vinje by Dyre Vaa was erected in Sogn Student Village in Oslo
• In 1984, Vinje was depicted on Norges Bank's 50-krone note

See also

• Vinjerock

References

Other sources

• Glienke, Bernhard (1999) Vinje in London (Frankfurt: Peter Lang in Metropolis und nordische Moderne) Norwegian
• Vesaas, Olav (2001) A.O. Vinje. Ein tankens hærmann (Oslo: Cappelen) Norwegian
• Langslet, Lars Roar; Jon H. Rydne (1993) Villmann, vismann og veiviser : en essaysamling om A. O. Vinje (Oslo, Cappelen) ISBN 82-02-14070-6 Norwegian
• Glomnes, Eli; Øyvind T. Gulliksen; Olav Solberg (1992) At føle paa nationens puls : åtte artiklar om Aasmund O. Vinje (Oslo, Novus) ISBN 82-7099-196-1 Norwegian

External links

• Digitized books by Vinje in the National Library of Norway
• A. O. Vinje in Tønsberg Norwegian

На других языках

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- [en] Aasmund Olavsson Vinje

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[fr] Aasmund Olavsson Vinje

Aasmund Olavsson Vinje est un singulier écrivain norvégien, pionnier avec le linguiste Ivar Aasen du landsmål, à la fois poète et journaliste, né à Vinje dans le Telemark en 1818 et mort à Gran dans le Oppland en 1870. Le rédacteur de Dølen est un des satiristes les plus mordants de sa génération. Ce partisan de l'innovation linguistique, créateur souvent isolé du landsmål, est aussi un des grands poètes lyriques, unanimement reconnu pour sa quête d'une langue simple.

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[ru] Винье, Осмунн Улафсон

Осмунн Улафсон Винье (норв. Aasmund Olavsson Vinje; 6 апреля 1818, Винье, Телемарк, Норвегия — 30 июля 1870, Гран, Оппланн, Норвегия) — норвежский поэт и журналист. Вошёл в историю Норвегии, прежде всего, как один из создателей и пропагандистов нового норвежского литературного языка — лансмола, основы которого заложил Ивар Осен в середине XIX века.

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