Background
Bjerregaard, Carl Henry Andrew was born on May 24, 1845 in Fredericia, Denmark. Son of Janus Bagge Friis and Louise (Bagge-Nielsen) Bjerregaard.
Bjerregaard, Carl Henry Andrew was born on May 24, 1845 in Fredericia, Denmark. Son of Janus Bagge Friis and Louise (Bagge-Nielsen) Bjerregaard.
Studied Fredericia College. Graduate Copenhagen U., 1863. Graduate as officer from Military Academy of Denmark, 1866.
Served as Lieutenant 5 years.
Professor botany, Fredericia College, 2 years. Resigned to join Danish Legation to Court of Russia, served 2 years. Came to United States for political reasons, 1873.
Librarian since 1879, Astor Library, then Astor branch New York Public Library—Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Author: Mysticism and Nature Worship (2 vols). Being, and the Philosophical History of the Subject.
Sufi Interpretation of Omar Khayyám and Fitzgerald, 1902. History and Doctrine of Mysticism, 16 vols. still in preparation. Jesus, a poet, a prophet, a mystic and a man of freedom, 1912.
The Inner Life and The Tao-Teh-King, 1912. The Great Mother, 1913. Sufism, Omar Khayyám and Fitzgerald, 1915.
Also a collaborator on Standard Dictionary, Jewish Encyclopedia International Encyclopedia and Encyclopedia Americana. An authority on orientalia and mysticism.
Married Matilda J. Thompson, 1868.