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Bjørnson
Bjørnson is a Norwegian surname with the literal meaning "Son of Bjørn". Bjornson, Bjørnson, Bjørnsen, Björnsson and variations can refer to the following people: ; ;Icelanders *Ármann Smári Björnsson (born 1981), Icelandic footballer * Björn Th. Björnsson (1922–2007), Icelandic writer * Georgia Björnsson (1884–1957), Danish-born wife of Sveinn *Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (born 1988), Icelandic strongman and actor *Sveinn Björnsson (1881–1952), first president of Iceland * Sveinn Birkir Björnsson (born 1976), editor of ''The Reykjavík Grapevine'' ; ;Norwegians *Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832–1910), Norwegian writer, 1903 Nobel Prize *Bjørn Bjørnson (1859–1942), Norwegian stage actor and theatre director, son of Bjørnstjerne *Gudrød Bjørnsson, Norwegian politician in Middle Ages, grandfather of Olaf *Ivar Bjørnson (born 1977), Norwegian musician, ''Enslaved'' * Øyvind Bjørnson, (1950–2007), Norwegian historian ; ;Swedes *Erik Björnsson, 9th cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson ( , ; 8 December 1832 – 26 April 1910) was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit". The first Norwegian Nobel laureate, he was a prolific polemicist and extremely influential in Norwegian public life and Scandinavian cultural debate. Bjørnson is considered to be one of the The Four Greats (Norwegian writers), four great Norwegian writers, alongside Henrik Ibsen, Ibsen, Jonas Lie (writer), Lie, and Alexander Kielland, Kielland. He is also celebrated for his lyrics to the Norwegian national anthem, "Ja, vi elsker dette landet". The composer Fredrikke Waaler based a composition for voice and piano () on a text by Bjørnson, as did Anna Teichmüller (). Childhood and education Bjørnson was born at the farmstead of Bjørgan parsonage, Bjørgan in K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivar Bjørnson
Ivar Skontorp Peersen, best known by his stage name Ivar Bjørnson (born 27 November 1977), is a Norwegian musician and composer. He is a founding member and the main songwriter of the extreme metal band Enslaved, and has previously been a member of the metal band Borknagar and collaborated with Einar Selvik on several albums. Bjørnson has released sixteen studio albums with Enslaved and won five Norwegian Spellemann Awards with the band. Biography Bjørnson was born in Etne. He is, along with Grutle Kjellson, one of only two founding members left in the current line-up of Enslaved, having been only 13 years old at the time of the band's formation in 1991. Bjørnson and Kjellson had previously performed together in a death metal band called Phobia from 1990 to 1991. After Phobia's split, the two formed Enslaved as a band more in the vein of the black metal style and with their shared fascination with Norse mythology as a foundation. In addition to his duties on guitar, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bjørn Bjørnson
Bjørn Bjørnson (15 November 1859 – 14 May 1942) was a Norwegian stage actor and theatre director. Biography He was born in Christiania, the son of author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson ( , ; 8 December 1832 – 26 April 1910) was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished ... and his wife Karoline Bjørnson. In 1876, he was admitted as a student at the Stern Conservatory operated by Julius Stern in Berlin, Germany. He also attended the Vienna Conservatory. He was the artistic leader of Christiania Theatre from 1885 to 1893, and he was the first theatre director at the National Theatre, from its opening in 1899 until 1907, and again from 1923 to 1927. Besides being an actor and director, he also was a playwright. In 1893 he married Norwegian opera singer Gina Oselio. Their marriage was dissolved in 1909. Sele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Øyvind Bjørnson
Øyvind Bjørnson (1 January 1950 – 3 December 2007) was a Norwegian historian who specialized in labor history and the history of the welfare state. Biography He was from Haugesund. He received his candidate in 1979, and later the dr.philos. degree in 1987 with the thesis ''Den nye arbeidsdagen''. In 1990, he published ''På klassekampens grunn'', volume two of the work ''Arbeiderbevegelsens historie i Norge'', the history of the Norwegian workers' movement. He then covered the welfare state history with the books ''100 år for bedre arbeidsmiljø'', published in 1993 at the 100th anniversary of the Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority, and ''Langsomt ble landet et velferdssamfunn'', published in 1994 together with his life partner and colleague Inger Elisabeth Haavet. His last work, ''Haugesund 1914–1950. Dei trødde sjøen'' published in 2004, was about his hometown, linked with broader global economic trends. He was a professor at the University of Bergen The Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Björnson
Maria Elena Björnson (16 February 1949 – 13 December 2002) was a theatre designer. She was born in Paris to a Norwegian father and Romanian mother, and was the great-granddaughter of the Norwegian playwright Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1903. Life Björnson was born in Paris on 16 February 1949. Her father Bjørn was a businessman from Norway; her mother, Mia Prodan (full name Maria Prodan de Kisbunn), was from Romania. Both were from theatrical families. Björnson was raised by her mother in London. She studied at the Lycée Français, and then at the Byam Shaw School of Art and at the Central School of Art and Design. She designed sets and costumes for theatre, ballet and opera. She worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and designed Andrew Lloyd Webber's ''The Phantom of the Opera'' – for which she won a Tony Award for Best Scenic Design and for Best Costume Design, and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design and fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Björn Th
Bjorn, Bjorne (English, Dutch), Björn (Swedish, Icelandic, Dutch, and German), Bjørn (Danish, Faroese and Norwegian), Beorn (Old English) or, rarely, Bjôrn, Biorn, or Latinized Biornus, Brum (Portuguese), is a Scandinavian male given name, or less often a surname. The name means "bear" (the animal). In Swedish and Finnish, the nickname Nalle ("teddy bear") refers to Björn. Surname *Claus Bjørn, Danish author, historian, and television and radio broadcaster *Evert Björn, Swedish Olympic athlete *Hugo Björne, Swedish actor *Kristian Bjørn, Norwegian skier * Lasse Björn, Swedish Olympic ice hockey player *Nathalie Björn, Swedish football player *Thomas Bjørn, Danish golfer Given name Acting *Björn Andrésen, Swedish actor and musician *Björn Bjelfvenstam, Swedish actor *Björn Granath, Swedish actor *Björn Gustafsson, Swedish comedian and actor *Björn Gustafson, Swedish actor *Björn Kjellman, Swedish actor and singer *Björn Skifs, Swedish singer and actor Art a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Bjornson
Karen Bjornson (born 1952) is an American model. She is best known as one of Halston's ''Halstonettes''. In 2019, she was one of many of his former models to be interviewed for the documentary film ''Halston''. Bjornson was born in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1952. She later moved with her family to Cincinnati. Bjornson moved to New York, and a month later met Halston, who hired her immediately. She went on to appear on the cover of Newsweek and Cosmopolitan. Bjornson retired in the early 1980s to start a family, and returned to modelling in the early 2000s at the age of 50. She is married to interior designer Timothy Macdonald. They have two daughters, and have lived in Darien, Connecticut Darien ( ) is a coastal town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. With a population of 21,499 and a land area of just under , it is the smallest town on Connecticut's Gold Coast (Connecticut), Gold Coast. Situated on the Long Island ..., since 1989. References Living peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selma Björnsdóttir
Selma Björnsdóttir (born 13 June 1974), also known as Selma or Selma Björns, is an Icelandic actress and singer born in Reykjavík. She is well-known internationally for representing Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest, Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest in both Eurovision Song Contest 1999, 1999 and Eurovision Song Contest 2005, 2005. Career Áfram Latibær In 1996, Selma played Solla Stirða in the Icelandic stage play ''Áfram Latibær!''. This character later developed into Stephanie (LazyTown), Stephanie on the children's television show ''LazyTown''. She would later choreograph episodes of ''LazyTown''. Eurovision Her first Eurovision experience occurred in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999, 1999 contest in Jerusalem, with the song "All Out of Luck". The song was the pre-contest favorite with bookmakers. During the voting, Selma shot into an early lead in the voting but was gradually pegged back by Sweden, represented by Charlotte Nilsson. Despite trailing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christina Bjornsdatter
Christina of Denmark (, ; 1120/25 – 1160/70), was Queen of Sweden as the wife of King Erik the Saint (r. 1156–1160), and the mother of King Knut Eriksson. Life According to the ''Knýtlinga saga'', Christina was the daughter of Bjørn Haraldsen Ironside, son of the Danish prince Harald Kesja, and his consort, the Swedish princess Katarina Ingesdotter, daughter of King Inge I of Sweden. It has been calculated that she was born no earlier than c. 1122, which fits with the approximate birthdate of her future husband Erik (c. 1120–25). She was made fatherless in 1134, when her father Prince Björn was murdered by order of his uncle, King Eric II of Denmark. Her sole surviving close relative, Björn's brother Oluf Haraldsen, sought assistance in Sweden and was able to set himself up as king in Skåne in 1140–1143. In about the same time Christina married in Sweden with a man of non-royal origins, Erik Jedvardsson, later known as Saint Erik. He probably came from the provi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Val Bjornson
Kristjan Valdimar "Val" Bjornson (August 29, 1906 – March 10, 1987) was an American writer, newspaper editor, and politician who served as the State Treasurer of Minnesota for more than two decades. Bjornson was born in Minneota, Minnesota of Icelandic descent. In World War II, he served in Navy intelligence, stationed in Iceland. Besides English, he was fluent in Icelandic, Finnish, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian. He was part owner of the '' Minneota Mascot'' newspaper and an associate editor at the ''St. Paul Pioneer Press''. Running as the Republican candidate in the 1954 United States Senate elections, Bjornson lost to Hubert Humphrey, with whom he sometimes shared a car to travel around the state. Bjornson died in Minneapolis on March 10, 1987. The University of Minnesota, his alma mater, and the University of Iceland The University of Iceland ( ) is a public research university in Reykjavík, Iceland, and the country's oldest and largest institution of higher edu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
