Henrik Arnold Thaulow Wergeland (17 June 1808-12 July 1845) was a Norwegian playwright and political author.
Biography[]
Henrik Arnold Thaulow Wergeland was born in Kristiansand, Denmark-Norway in 1808, the son of statesman Nicolai Wergeland. He stood up to the local governors at the 17 May 1829 Battle of the Square in Christiania (Oslo), and he went on to become interested in politics, making successful efforts to allow Jews into Norway, writing the Enlightenment and French Revolution-inspired poetic epic Creation, Man, and the Messiah in 1845, enthusiastically preaching the doctrines of France's 1830 July Revolution, established popular libraries, attempted to fight against the widespread poverty of the Norwegian peasantry, tirelessly fought for the Norwegian national cause, and crusaded for social justice until his death from pneumonia in 1845.