Hans Jæger

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Hans Jæger (September 2, 1854 in Drammen, Norway - February 8, 1910 in Oslo) was a Norwegian writer, philosopher and anarchist political activist who was part of the Oslo (then Kristiania) based bohemian group Kristianiabohêmen. He was prosecuted for his book Fra Kristiania-bohemen and convicted to 60 days imprisonment in a supreme court ruling in 1886.

The following year, he was forced to flee Norway. He had been sentanced to 150 more days in prison after the Norwegian government learned that he had sent 300 copies of Christiania Bohemians to Sweden under the auspices of a volume of Christmas stories.

He was a friend of Edvard Munch, and was the subject of one of Munch's paintings.

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Kants fornuftskritik ( Kant's critique of pure reason) 1878
Olga (play) 1883
En intellektuel Forførelse (play) (An Intellectual Seduction) 1884
Fra Kristiania-bohemen (From the Christiania Bohemians) 1885
Julefortællinger av Hans Jæger (Christmas Stories by Hans Jæger, in reality the second

volume of From the Christiania Bohemians) 1886

Albertine (with Christian Krohg) 1886
Min forsvarstale i høyesterett (My Defence Speech in the Supreme Court) 1886
Kristianiabilleder (Images of Christiania) 1888
Novelletter (Short Stories) 1889
Bohemens erotiske bekjennelser (The Erotic Confessions of the Bohemians)
- Syk kjærlihet (part 1 of 3) 1893 (Twisted Love)
- Bekjendelser (part 2 of 3) 1902 (Confessions)
- Fængsel og fortvilelse (part 3 of 3) 1903 (Prison and Despair)
Anarkiets bibel (The Bible of Anarchism) 1906
Socialismens ABC (written between 1906-1910, never finished) (The ABC of Socialism)