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Burchard Jessen

1871–1925

A Norwegian storyteller with a feel for sea life and working harbor towns, he is best remembered today for the novel S/S "Styggen." His surviving work suggests a writer drawn to tough, practical characters and life along the coast.

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S/S "Styggen"

S/S "Styggen"

by Burchard Jessen

About the author

Burchard Jessen (1871–1925) was a Norwegian author. Reliable catalog and library-style sources from this search connect him with Bergen and with the Norwegian-language novel S/S "Styggen", which was published by Aschehoug in Kristiania in 1917 and later preserved by Project Gutenberg.

The work he is easiest to trace today is S/S "Styggen", a maritime novel centered on sailors and tugboat life. That coastal setting gives a good sense of his literary world: everyday people, hard work, and drama shaped by the sea.

Some bibliographic sources also show that his writing circulated beyond Norway through translation, including the story Kismeth in Danish and Frokostbladet in Finnish. I couldn’t confirm a suitable portrait image from the sources available here, so no profile image is included.