Erasmus Zahl, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Erasmus Zahl

Norwegian businessman

Date of Birth: 19-Jan-1826

Date of Death: 29-Apr-1900

Profession: merchant

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Erasmus Benedicter (Benedigt) Kjerschow (Kjerskov) Zahl (19 January 1826 – 29 April 1900) was a privileged trader and an island owner at Kjerringøy in Nordland, Norway.
Zahl is known as Nobel Literature Prize laureate Knut Hamsun's monetary supporter, and a representative of the old, traditional Nordland—Hamsun's ideal society.
He is also internationally known through the character Mack, who appears in several works of Hamsun, among them Pan (1894), Dreamers (1904), and Benoni and Rosa (1908).