The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
Bull, Ole Bornemann
(´l br´nmän bl) (KEY) , 181080, Norwegian violinist. After his debut in Paris (1832) he toured in Europe and in the United States, playing mainly his own compositions and Norwegian folk music. He founded a theater for national drama at Bergen (1849), and in 1852 he attempted to found a Norwegian settlement in Pennsylvania.