Henrik Wergeland (1808-1845)

Death: 12th July 1845
Location: Vår Frelsers Gravlund / Our Saviour's Cemetery, Oslo, Norway

Cause of death: Tuberculosis / lung cancer
Photo taken by: Chris Nyborg
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Norwegian writer, most celebrated for his poetry, but also a prolific playwright, polemicist, historian, and linguist. Wergeland's younger sister was the writer Camilla Collett.

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