PREFACE

After long and repeated urging on the part of many friends,
Prof. Rasmus B. Anderson has undertaken the writing of his
autobiography which he has also consented to give to the read-
ers of this paper in installments, beginning with the opening of
the new year.

Prof. Anderson's career has been interesting from many
points of view. His parents were among the earliest Nor-
wegian settlers in this country, so that his story reaches back
and practically covers the whole period of Norwegian settle-
ment. He was a member of the first class to graduate from
Luther College at Decorah, Iowa, was the first man to hold a
chair in Scandinavian languages and literature in an American
university, and was the first of Scandinavian parentage to rep-
resent our country abroad, serving as United States minister to
Denmark from 1 885 to 1 889. He has also written and trans-
lated numerous books dealing with Scandinavian history and
literature. In the American supplement to the Encyclopaedia
Britannica he is called the father of Norwegian literature in
America.

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