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Norwegian/Danish economist, civil servant, poet, novelist, playwright, diarist and magazine editor

Christen Pram

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Norwegian/Danish economist, civil servant, poet, novelist, playwright, diarist and magazine editor

A.K.A.

Christen Henriksen Pram

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Norway Denmark

was

Writer Poet Diarist Playwright Novelist Economist Editor Civil servant

Work field

Literature

Gender

Male

Birth

4 September 1756 People who share this birthday

Place of birth

Lesja, Oppland, Norway

Star sign

Virgo People who share this birthday

Death

28 November 1821 People who died on this day

Place of death

Saint Thomas, Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, USA

Age

65 years

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Biography

Christen Henriksen Pram (4 September 1756 – 28 November 1821) was a Norwegian/Danish economist, civil servant, poet, novelist, playwright, diarist and magazine editor. He is held as the first Norwegian novelist, although his writing was carried out in the Danish language.

Personal life

Christen was born in Lesja, a son of Minister Henrik Frederik Pram and Olava Maria de Stockfleth. When he was eight years old, he moved with his family to Denmark, when his father assumed a position as vicar in Sjælland. He married Maria Magdalena Erichsen in 1782. He died on the island of Saint Thomas, in the Danish West Indies, in 1821.Pram was amember of the Norwegian Society in Copenhagen,

Career

Prom assumed various positions in Kommercekollegiet (the Copenhagen College of Commerce), where he was appointed in 1781. He made his literary breakthrough in 1782, with the poem "Emilias Kilde". His best known literary work is the epic cycle of poems Stærkodder of 1785, based on the legendary hero Starkaðr from Saxo Grammaticus' monumental work Gesta Danorum. He co-founded and co-edited the cultural magazine Minerva from 1785, in cooperation with Knud Lyne Rahbek. He was the sole editor of Minerva from 1789, but after having received warnings over his enthusiasm for the French Revolution, he resigned as editor in 1793.

In 1820, as a consequenceof a failed marriage and economic difficulties, he moved to the Danish Qest Indies to assume a position as customs customs inspector in Charlotte Amalie on SaintThomas. For his farewell party in Copenhagen, in April 1820, N. F. S. Grundtvig wrotethe son Langt højere bjerge så vide på jord. He died on Saint Thomas in 1821.

Literary works

He is regarded as the first Norwegian novelist. Among his novels are Jørgen, en Dosmers Levnedsbeskrivelse (Jørgen, the Biography of a fool) and Hans Kruuskop of 1786, andJohn Thral. Bidrag til Frihedens Historie (John Thral. A Contribution to the History of Freedom) of 1787. He wrote the comedy Ægteskabsskolen (The School for Marriage) in 1795. In the same year he delivered a prize-winning contribution to the preparations for a university in Norway.