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Janson was born on May 4, 1841, in Bergen, Norway, the son of Consul Helmich Janson and Constanse Fredrikke Janson (née Neumann).
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Janson was born on May 4, 1841, in Bergen, Norway, the son of Consul Helmich Janson and Constanse Fredrikke Janson (née Neumann).
Janson received his early schooling in the Cathedral School, Bergen, whence he was admitted to the University, Christiania (Oslo), in 1859, matriculating in the theological department. He did not finish his training for the Lutheran ministry, however, because he had come to hold certain liberal views that were disapproved by the church.
During the next fourteen years since 1860, Janson devoted himself exclusively to writing. Though his literary taste and method had been largely determined by Danish and Norwegian Romanticists, the then new language movement (landsmaal) in Norway had a powerful appeal for him, and until 1881 he wrote mostly in this literary form. His Fraa Bygdom (1866) contains the masterly story "Liv, " perhaps his chief contribution to Norwegian fiction. A volume of poems, Norske Dikt, also in the landsmaal, was printed in 1867. In 1869 he became a teacher in Chr. Bruun's public high school in North Sel, Gudbrandsdalen. A few years later this school was moved to Gausdal, Janson remaining with it until 1878, when he was forced to resign because he had gone over to Unitarianism. The experiences that led to this step are portrayed in the story Ensom ("Alone"), published in 1903, which is largely autobiographical.
In 1879 Janson went to America and remained some time at Harvard, reading Channing and Parker, then went to Minnesota, where in 1879-1880 he delivered some eighty lectures in the Norwegian settlements under the auspices of the Unitarian Church. In the summer of 1880 he returned to Norway, but was invited by the American Unitarian Association to establish a mission in Minnesota, and in 1881 began preaching in Minneapolis, where he organized the Nazareth Unitarian Society. He also organized societies in St. Paul, Hanska, and Underwood, Minnesota, and Hudson, Wisconsin. His missionary work continued until 1893, when he returned to Norway. He lived thereafter at Christiania and in Copenhagen until his death.
During his American years he traveled and lectured extensively, published a volume of sermons, edited the Unitarian organ Saamanden, carried on investigation about Norwegian immigration and settlements, and wrote many books based on the materials gathered, including: Amerikanske Forholde (1881); Prairiens Saga (1885); and Nordmaend i Amerika (1887). Janson wrote novels, translated titles of which are: From the Danish Period (1876); Our Grandparents (1881); Sara (1891). A popularization of Norse mythology, Ved Mimes BrÏnd (1917), appeared about the time of his death. Our Grandparents is based on the events that preceded the union of Norway and Sweden in 1814, and as an interpretation of that troubled era is a work of major importance. In 1895 he founded a Unitarian Society in Christiania, and he remained its pastor to the year of his death, continuing also to write and to lecture.
Janson died in Copenhagen, Denmark, on November 17, 1917.
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Though deeply religious and a man of great earnestness of purpose, Janson was often unjust in his attacks upon the church from which he had withdrawn. Most of his stories written after 1878 contain, in conversations and characterizations, propaganda against the Lutheran Church.
Janson was a man of great learning. His knowledge of the eighteenth century, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic era was that of a specialist.
About 1866 Janson was married to Drude Krog, the daughter of a clergyman near Bergen, Norway; they separated in 1893.