Knut hamsun og hitler biography

Knut Hamsun (August 4, 1859 – February 19, 1952) was a Norwegianauthor and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, in 1920.^[1]

An obituary he wrote for Adolf Hitler^[2]: 9 was published on 7 May 1945 in Aftenposten (a newspaper).^[3]

Personal life

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He married Marie Hamsun.

Their children include Tore Hamsun.

After death

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In 1978, Gabriel Langfeldt released a book that listed the entire [written] statement of the court-appointed [medical] experts, from Hamsun's trial;^[4]spokesman for the Hamsun family - Leif Hamsun (a grandchild of Knut Hamsun) - said that after Langfeldt revealed my grandparents [privileged interviews with court-appointed experts], there is little that is private anymore.^[2]: 10

Publication (in 2017) of notes written by Hamsun's psychoanalyst

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See the main article: Notes from the ps