Jacob Breda Bull was a Norwegian author

Author

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Bull is best known for the novel Vesleblakken and for other novels and stories about descriptions of folk life in the Østerdalen

Østerdalen

Østerdalen is a valley and traditional district in Hedmark County, in Eastern Norway. It consisting of the municipalities Rendalen, Alvdal, Folldal,Tynset, Tolga and Os in the north, Elverum, Stor-Elvdal, Engerdal, Trysil and Åmot in the south.-Geography:...

 valley. He also wrote historical novels, contemporary novels and poetry.
Bull was born in Rendalen

Rendalen

Rendalen is a municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Bergset.-Name:...

, the son of the priest Matthias Bull (1815-1876) and Henriette Magrethe Breda. As a student he received the university grade “haud laudibilis” (not without praise) in May 1876, and then served a year as a teacher at Nickelsen’s Girl’s School in Kristiania. In April 1878 he founded the newspaper Dagen

Dagen

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('The Day') and subsequently earned his living as a journalist. He served as leader of the Norwegian Authors' Union

Norwegian Authors' Union

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 from 1900 to 1903.

He married Gunvor Sophie Rytter Saws (1843-1882) on 29 December 1876, and was married a second time with Anna Maria Augusta Bergløf (born in Stockholm

Stockholm

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 1855) on 9 January 1883. He was the father of Olaf Bull

Olaf Bull

Olaf Jacob Martin Luther Breda Bull or Olaf Bull was a Norwegian poet. He was born on November 10, 1883 in Kristiania , Norway, and died on June 29, 1933.-His life:...

 and grandfather of Jan Bull

Jan Bull

Jan Bull was a Norwegian author and theater instructor. Born in Paris, he was son of the Norwegian poet Olaf Bull.- Bibliography :* 13 poetry – poetry .* Marianne – * Sommerfuglene...

, both poets.

The old rectory in Rendalen, where he grew up, is now Bull's Museum, a biographical and cultural history museum.

Filmography

• Glomdalsbruden
  Bride of Glomdal
  Bride of Glomdal is a 1926 film directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. It is based on the stories "Glomdalsbruden" and "Eline Vangen" by Jacob Breda Bull....
  
  (directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
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  , 1926)