Carl E. Nordberg

Biography

Carl E. Nordberg was a Norwegian-American professor who taught Norwegian and religion at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. The notes in the Project Gutenberg edition of his book give his birth year as 1880, when he was probably born in Norway, and say that he died in 1926. No encyclopaedia article about him was found when this page was written, so the page lists no sources, and the other details here come only from the book and its notes.

He wrote in Norwegian for the Norwegian-speaking community of the American Midwest. Presten som ikke kunde brukes og andre skisser (The Priest Who Could Not Be Used and Other Sketches) first appeared as a serial in the Minneapolis Norwegian weekly Folkebladet, and it was issued as a book in Minneapolis in 1922, in its second edition, by the author's own publisher. The title story follows a congregation slow to honour long, faithful service, using the example of a pastor named Reierson in the Glenfield congregation, and it also looks back at a revival there in the 1890s. The preface by Paul Winther, dated December 1921, praises it as a faithful picture of congregational life among Norwegian Americans.

Nordberg also translated J. R. Miller's Kristendom i Hverdagslivet from English into Norwegian, and he wrote an English book about the peasant stories of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. The book itself is in Norwegian and was printed in the blackletter type that older Norwegian readers knew, so it can be read in the original.

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Books

1. Presten som ikke kunde brukes

   by Carl E. Nordberg

   In a Norwegian-American Lutheran congregation in Glenfield, the faithful pastor Reierson is eased out because his flock wants a younger man with better English and more modern ways. His successor arrives to a grand welcome, but the new manners soon divide the parish. A gently…

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