Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian author and scholar (died 1885)

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

19th-century Norwegian writer

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen was a Norwegian writer and scholar. He and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe were collectors of Norwegian folklore. They were so closely united in their lives' work that their folk tale collections are commonly mentioned only as "Asbjørnsen and Moe".