Moe, Jørgen Ingebretsen (1813-1882)

Norwegian poet and folklorist. His first published work was Sange, folkeviser og stev i norske almuedialekter/Poems, Folk Songs and Rhymes in Norwegian Dialects 1840. Later, in collaboration with Peter Asbjörnsen, he published Norske folkeeventyr/Norwegian Folk Tales 1841-44. In his poetry he portrays, sensitively but without romanticizing, the nature around him.

He was born in Ringerike, into a peasant family. He studied theology in Christiania (Oslo), became a clergyman 1853, and was ultimately appointed bishop of Kristiansand 1875.