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Elling Holst
Elling Bolt Holst (19 July 18492 September 1915) was a Norwegians, Norwegian mathematician, biographer and children's writer. Early and personal life Holst was born in Drammen, Norway. He was a son of bookseller Adolph Theodor Holst and Amalie Fredrikke Bergh. He was a grandson of merchant and politician, member of the Storting, Elling Mathias Holst (1785-1852). Holst enrolled as a student at the University of Oslo, University of Christiania (now University of Oslo), his doctoral advisor was Sophus Lie, and he graduated as cand.real. in 1874. He continued his studies in Germany, where Felix Klein was among his teachers. He was appointed teacher at Aars og Voss skole in Christiania (now Oslo). His thesis ''Et par syntetiske Methoder, især til Brug ved Studiet af metriske Egenskaber'' was finished in 1882. Career Holst lectured in mathematics at the University of Oslo from 1894. Among his other mathematical works are his contribution from 1878, ''Om Poncelets betydning for geome ...
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Simon Michelet
Simon Themstrup Michelet (8 February 1863 – 15 October 1942) was a Norwegian theologian. He was Professor of Theology at the University of Oslo. Background He was born in Trondhjem (now Trondheim), Norway. He was a son of customs officer Joseph Frantz Oscar Michelet (1832–1913) and Caroline Julie Laache (1833–1915). His grandfather was a brother of Christian Frederik Michelet and father of Carl Johan Michelet. On the paternal side he was a second cousin of major Christian Fredrik Michelet and politician Christian Fredrik Michelet. On the maternal side he was a first cousin of doctor and professor of medicine, Søren Bloch Laache (1854-1941). He grew up in Hitra and Trondhjem. He finished his secondary education in 1881, and decided to study theology. He was taken into the home of priest Johan C. H. Storjohann, where he met his future wife Marie Elisabeth Storjohann (1866–1951). They married in September 1888. Simon's sister was named Marie as well, and she marrie ...
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Eivind Nielsen
Eivind Nielsen (18 June 186413 July 1939) was a Norwegian painter, illustrator and teacher. He was born at Haugesund in Rogaland, Norway. He was the son of Byfogd Martin Nielsen (1823-1899) and Caroline Emilie Petersen (1830-1898). Nielsen was a student of Hans Heyerdahl and started at the Knud Bergslien art school in Christiania (now Oslo) in 1880. He studied in Munich until 1883. From 1885 to 1888, he was a student at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry. His breakthrough as illustrator was the children's book ''Norsk Billedbog for Børn'' (Kristiania : L.E. Tvedtes Forlag) by Elling Holst from 1888, which is regarded as the first colored picture book in Norway. The book became widely popular and has been reprinted numerous times (the 17th edition was issued in 1998). He also illustrated the sequels from 1890 and 1903. The main subjects were naturalistic produced but kept separate by an ornamental framework, usually in the form of tree roots or other organi ...
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Niels Henrik Abel
Niels Henrik Abel ( , ; 5 August 1802 – 6 April 1829) was a Norwegian mathematician who made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields. His most famous single result is the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals. This question was one of the outstanding open problems of his day, and had been unresolved for over 250 years. He was also an innovator in the field of elliptic functions, discoverer of Abelian functions. He made his discoveries while living in poverty and died at the age of 26 from tuberculosis. Most of his work was done in six or seven years of his working life. Regarding Abel, the French mathematician Charles Hermite said: "Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years." Another French mathematician, Adrien-Marie Legendre, said: "What a head the young Norwegian has!" The Abel Prize in mathematics, originally proposed in 1899 to complement the Nobel Prizes (but f ...
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Harald Skavlan
Harald Skavlan (19 June 1854 – 11 July 1908) was a Norwegian railroad engineer. He was born in Herøy as a son of dean Aage Schavland (1806–1876) and his wife Gerhardine Pauline Bergh (1817–1884). He was a great-grandnephew of vicar Jacob Schavland, nephew of vicar Gerhard B. Bergh and a brother of Sigvald Skavlan, Einar Skavlan, Sr., Olaf Skavlan and Aage Skavlan. He grew up in Trondhjem, and from 1870 to 1872 he took an engineer's education in Gothenburg. From 1876 to 1882 he worked as an engineering assistant on the Røros Line, and in the 1890s he participated in the construction of the Hamar–Otta Line and the Gjøvik Line. In 1898 he succeeded Thorbjørn Lekve as head engineer of the western part of the Bergen Line, which was under construction. The construction reached Krøderen before Skavlan's death. The opening of the entire Bergen Line took place in November 1909. Skavlan advocated a type of countercyclical economy, stating that the state should take ...
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Aage Skavlan
Aage Gerhard Skavlan (22 December 1847 – 24 February 1920) was a Norwegian historian. He was born in Herøy as a son of dean Aage Schavland (1806–1876) and his wife Gerhardine Pauline Bergh (1817–1884). He was a great-grandnephew of vicar Jacob Schavland, nephew of vicar Gerhard B. Bergh and a brother of Sigvald Skavlan, Einar Skavlan, Sr., Olaf Skavlan and Harald Skavlan. He graduated from Trondhjem Cathedral School in 1868 and took the cand.theol. degree in 1872. He spent his early career as a school teacher, but also researched history. He was given a royal scholarship in 1877 to conduct studies at the University of Copenhagen and Lund University, and in 1878 he published his first book ''Historiske Billeder fra den nyere Tid i Danmark, Norge og tildels Sverige''. In 1881 he received a parliamentary grant to write a history on Norway in 1814; he released books on this topic in 1882, 1884, 1892 and 1899. He worked as archivist in Trondhjem from 1890 to 1891, and at ...
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Sigvald Skavlan
Sigvald Skavlan (27 December 18394 November 1912) was a Norwegian priest, psalmist and educator. He was born at the vicarage in Stranda in Møre og Romsdal. He was the son of Aage Schavland (1806–1876) and Gerhardine Pauline Bergh (1817–1884). His father was a parish priest and later member of the Storting. After 1844, the family moved to Herøy. He was a brother of Olaf Skavlan, Aage Skavlan and Harald Skavlan, and uncle of Einar Skavlan. Skavlan studied theology in Christiania (now Oslo) until 1864. He was one of the first three priests in Antwerp after the Norwegian Seaman's Mission was founded in 1865. He later lectured at , a school for the deaf in Trondheim, until he was appointed vicar in Askøy. In 1887 came to Vår Frue Church in Trondheim where he served until he retired. He is probably best remembered for his cantatas and psalms. His psalm collection was published posthumously in 1913. He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav The Roya ...
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Olaf Skavlan
Olaf Skavlan (25 January 1838 – 30 May 1891) was a Norwegian literary historian and playwright. Personal life He was born as Ole Skavlan in Stranda as a son of vicar and politician Aage Schavland (1806–1876) and his wife Gerhardine Pauline Bergh (1817–1884). He was a brother of Sigvald Skavlan, Einar Skavlan, Sr., Aage Skavlan and Harald Skavlan. In August 1879 in Stavanger he married Dagmar Kielland (1855–1931). Through this marriage he was a son-in-law of Jens Zetlitz Kielland, a brother-in-law of Ludvig Daae, Elling Holst, Kitty Lange Kielland, Alexander Kielland, Jacob Kielland and Tycho Kielland. He was the father of Einar Skavlan, father-in-law of Arnstein Arneberg and grandfather of Merete Skavlan. Career He debuted as a fiction writer as a student. In 1871 he took the doctorate on the thesis ''Holberg som Komedieforfatter'', about Ludvig Holberg as a comedy writer. In the periodical ''Nyt norsk Tidsskrift'' he published a study of Henrik Wergeland's work ''S ...
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Lisbeth Bergh
Lisbeth or Lizbeth is a feminine given name, a variant of Elisabeth. It may be: Notable people * Lisbeth Grönfeldt Bergman (born 1948), Swedish politician of the Moderate Party * Lisbeth Holand (born 1946), Norwegian politician of the Socialist Left Party * Lisbeth Klastrup (born 1970), Danish scholar * Lisbeth Lenton (born 1985), Australian retired competition swimmer * Lizbeth MacKay (born 1949), American actress * Lizbeth Marano (born 1950), American artist and photographer * Lisbeth Movin (1917–2011), Danish actress and director * Lisbeth Nypan (1610–1670), Norwegian alleged witch * Lisbeth Cathrine Amalie Rose (1738–1793), Danish actress * Lisbeth Scott (born 1968), American singer-songwriter * Lisbeth Stuer-Lauridsen (born 1968), Danish former badminton player * Lisbeth Zwerger (born 1954), Austrian illustrator of children's books Fictional characters * Lisbeth, character from '' Sword Art Online'' * Lisbeth "Bette" Fischer, title character of Honoré de B ...
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Anna Rogstad
Anna Georgine Rogstad (26 July 1854 – 8 November 1938) was a Norwegian politician, women's rights activist and educator. A member of the conservative-liberal Liberal Left Party, she was Norway's first female Member of Parliament. A teacher by profession, Rogstad was deeply involved in the educational policies of the nation. She was a prominent leader in the women's rights movement and the campaign for women's right to vote, and was a co-founder and board member of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights and board member of the Association for Women's Suffrage. In 1911 she met in parliament as a deputy representative for Jens Bratlie, and held this position full-time after Bratlie became Prime Minister in 1912. Early life and career Rogstad was born at Nordre Land to legal clerk Ole Rogstad (1805–1876) and Anne Cathrine Møller (b. 1807). Rogstad started teaching in primary school in 1873 in Trondheim. Four years later she moved to Kristiania – today's Oslo &n ...
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Aasmund Olavsson Vinje
Aasmund Olavsson Vinje (6 April 1818 – 30 July 1870) was a Norwegian poet and journalist who is remembered for poetry, travel writing, and his pioneering use of Landsmål (now known as Nynorsk). Background Vinje was born into a poor but well-read family in Vinje, Telemark. He had a voracious appetite for learning and supported himself in part by teaching. He earned his university entrance exam after attending the same school as Henrik Ibsen, studied law, and became an attorney. Career In 1858 Vinje founded the periodical ''Dølen'' (''The dales-man''), in which he published travel accounts and editorial comments on art, language and politics that serve as records for the period in which he lived. ''Dølen'' ceased publication in 1870. Vinje did much to articulate the difference between urban and rural life in Norway and was among the sophisticated exponents of Norwegian romantic nationalism. But he was also known for his critical scepticism and "dual vision" ( no, tvis ...
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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson ( , ; 8 December 1832 – 26 April 1910) was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit". The first Norwegian Nobel laureate, he was a prolific polemicist and extremely influential in Norwegian public life and Scandinavian cultural debate. Bjørnson is considered to be one of the four great Norwegian writers, alongside Ibsen, Lie, and Kielland. He is also celebrated for his lyrics to the Norwegian national anthem, " Ja, vi elsker dette landet". The composer Fredrikke Waaler based a composition for voice and piano (''Spinnersken'') on a text by Bjørnson, as did Anna Teichmüller (''Die Prinzessin''). Childhood and education Bjørnson was born at the farmstead of Bjørgan in Kvikne, a secluded village in the Østerdalen district, some sixty mil ...
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Henrik Wergeland
Henrik Arnold Thaulow Wergeland (17 June 1808 – 12 July 1845) was a Norwegian writer, most celebrated for his poetry but also a prolific playwright, polemicist, historian, and linguist. He is often described as a leading pioneer in the development of a distinctly Norwegian literary heritage and of modern Norwegian culture. Though Wergeland only lived to be 37, his range of pursuits covered literature, theology, history, contemporary politics, social issues, and science. His views were controversial in his time, and his literary style was variously denounced as subversive. Early life He was the oldest son of Nicolai Wergeland (1780–1848), who had been a member of the constituent assembly at Eidsvoll in 1814. The father was himself pastor of Eidsvold and the poet was thus brought up in the very holy of holies of Norwegian patriotism. Wergeland's younger sister was Camilla Collett and younger brother major general Joseph Frantz Oscar Wergeland. Henrik Wergeland entered Th ...
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