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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Maurits Christopher Hansen (1794–1842)

Hansen, Maurits Christopher (hän’sen). A Norwegian poet; born in Modum, July 5, 1794; died at Kongsberg, March 16, 1842. His models in fiction seem to have been Fouqué and Tieck. As a poet he is best represented by the volume of ‘Norse Idylls.’ He also wrote school grammars and manuals of literature that have been widely used in Norway.