Burchard Jessen
Biography
Burchard Jessen is named as the author of “S/S Styggen”, a Norwegian book published in Kristiania (now Oslo) in 1917 by H. Aschehoug & Co. No encyclopaedia article about him was found when this page was written, so his dates, background and any other writing are not recorded here.
The book is a sequence of eight titled chapters. The first, “By og bygd” (Town and Country), opens on a hot June day over a harbour and its merchants' wharves, and the later chapters follow the business, the gossip and the morals of that port, with chapter titles that point to money and bargaining. The book takes its name from a steamship.
The copy of “S/S Styggen” on this site can be read in the Norwegian original. Anyone who wants to learn more about Jessen should look for him in Norwegian library catalogues and national reference works, where any record of his life would be kept.
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Books
S/S "Styggen"
by Burchard Jessen
Captain Jonas Ratje, heartily sick of the sea, and his old engineer Dick Darling, half Scot and half Norwegian, buy a battered tugboat named Styggen and try to make a living with her in Bergen harbour. Eight comic episodes follow their schemes and scrapes with shipowners…
Summary written by Claude Opus 5.5.