Family
His parents were Sverre Nicolai Wergeland (1817–96) and Anne Margrethe Larsen (1817–89). His sister was Agnes Mathilde Wergeland (1857–1914), who emigrated to the United States and became known as an author. He was the great-nephew of Nicolai Wergeland; Norwegian priest, writer and politician, and a member of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll. Hence Henrik Wergeland, Camilla Collett and Joseph Frantz Oscar Wergeland were the cousins of his father.
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