Famous People with Name Asger

Asger Oluf Jorn            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Asger Oluf Jorn: was a founding member of the Situationist International, and a prolific artist and essayist. He was born in Vejrum, in the northwest corner of Jutland, Denmark and baptized Asger Oluf Jørgensen.

Asger Hamerik (Hammerich)            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Asger Hamerik (Hammerich): was a Danish composer of classical music. Later, he left Denmark in 1862 to study music in Munich, with Hans von Bülow, and Paris where he was a protégé of Hector Berlioz. It was in 1864 where he began using the more unmistakably Danish version of his last name, rather than Hammerich, in the swell of Danish national feeling after the Danish-Prussian war. He left Paris in 1869 for Italy, and then Vienna. In 1871 he was offered the post of director of the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, where his influence won praise from influential visitors including Tchaikovsky and Arthur Sullivan. He composed most of his large scale concert works for the Institute's orchestra. He left his position as director of the Peabody in 1898. He eventually returned to Denmark in 1900, with his American pianist wife, born Margaret Williams, but had essentially retired. He would sit on competition boards and conduct, including his own works.