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DEATH OF PROFESSOR BOYESEN.

The Well-Known Novelist, Critic, Poet and Teacher.,

NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED

Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, professor of the Germanic languages and literature in Columbia College, died suddenly on Friday of heart disease.

Professor Boyesen was born in Norway in 1848. In 1869 he came to America where he began life in Chicago as an editor of a Norwegian-Danish newspaper. Later he accepted a professorship of Latin and Greek in Urbana University, Ohio. In 1874 he was made assistant professor of German at Cornell University, and in 1875 was made a full professor. He remained there until 1880, when he went to New York with a view of devoting himself entirely to literature. In 1881 he accepted an instructorship in German in Columbia College, and was appointed professor in German in 1883. His first novel was written in 1871, and was published serially in the Atlantic Monthly in 1873. From 1871 he wrote continually for fifteen years. Much of his work was for different periodicals.

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