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Magnus Brostrup Landstad (7 October 1802 – 8 October 1880) was a Norwegian Lutheran parish priest andprovost, hymn writer, and poet who published the first collection of authentic Norwegian traditional ballads in 1853.^[1][2]

Landstad was born in the village ofMåsøy inFinnmark, Norway. He was one of ten children born to the parish priest Hans Landstad (1771–1838) and Margrethe Elisabeth Schnitler (1768–1850). His father was a minister, who first worked atØksnes Church in 1806, then relocated toVinje Church in 1811 and toSeljord Church in 1819. His grandfather wasPeter Schnitler (1690–1751). He was a cousin of the priest and local historian Hans Peter Schnitler Krag (1794–1855).^[3]

Landstad received a theology degree (cand.theol.) in 1827, and worked after that as the resident chaplain inGausdal for six years. After that he worked in various parishes inBratsberg andSmaalenenes counties before he became the minister atSandar Church inJarlsberg og Larvik county in 1859.^[4][3]

He is well known for introducing popular, contemporary Norwegian language into the hymns he wrote, contributing significantly to the spirit ofNorwegian romantic nationalism, which grew in Norway during this period. Although criticized at the time for the use of unscientific methods, today it is commonly accepted that he contributed significantly to the preservation of traditional ballads.

His single greatest achievement was the Landstad hymnal (Landstads kirkesalmebog). He included about 50 of his own hymns in it and completed the editing in 1861. Later revisions were used in Norwegian (bokmål) parishes until 1985. The current official church hymnal contains a number of his hymns as well as his translations of foreign-language hymns.^[5]

He married Wilhelmine Margrete Marie Lassen (1808–1892) in 1828. They were the parents of twelve children, of whom six died in early childhood. He died in 1880 atKristiania (now Oslo) and was buried atVår Frelsers gravlund.^[2]

• 1852:Norske Folkeviser. 3 vols. Christiania: C. Tönsberg, [1852–]1853.
• 1869:Kirkesalmebok: efter offentlig Foranstaltning. Kristiania: J. W. Cappelens Forlag, 1871

• Amundsen, Arne Bugge. 2012. "The Folk in the Church: Magnus Brostrup Landstad (1812–1880) as a Clerical Folklore Collector."Arv: Nordic Yearbook of Folklore 67-90.

• Utstilling om Landstad, Karin Helene Hognestad, UBiT.

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