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Hans Schaanning
Hans Thomas Lange Schaanning (2 March 1878 – 5 March 1956) was a Norwegian zoologist and ornithologist who studied the birds on the border of Norway and Russia. He later served as curator of birds in the museum at Stavanger. Schaanning was born in Oslo to Agnes Helene Salvesen (1849–1934) and engineer Peder Schaanning (1843–98). Schaaning was interested in birds even at a young age and was tutored at home by several teachers including Kristine Bonnevie. He passed the artium exam in 1899. He joined the University of Kristiania but did not enjoy studying zoology under Robert Collett and preferred the outdoors. He received a scholarship to travel to Pasvik in 1900 where he helped collect skins and eggs along. In 1902 he married the sixteen-year-old daughter of his Finnish neighbour Elsa Fiina Rautiola and lived on Varlam Island in a place called Noatun. He travelled on an expedition headed by Kristian Birkeland with Johan Koren into Novaya Zemlya Novaya Zemlya (, also , ; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristine Bonnevie
Kristine Elisabet Heuch Bonnevie (8 October 1872 – 30 August 1948) was a Norwegian biologist. She was the first woman to graduate with a science doctorate in Norway (and the second woman overall), Norway's first woman professor, a women's rights activist, and a politician for the Free-minded Liberal Party. Her fields of research were cell biology, cytology, genetics, and embryology. She was among the first women to be elected to political office in Norway. She suggested the epic voyage of her graduate student Thor Heyerdahl on the raft Kon-tiki, a voyage memorialized in the Kon-Tiki Museum, Oslo. Youth, primary, and secondary education She was the fifth of seven children born to Anne Johanne Daae (1839–1876) and her husband Jacob Aall Bonnevie (1838–1904), a member of the Norwegian parliament. She was baptized on 8 November 1872 at Vår Frue Church (Our Lady's Church) in Trondheim, part of the Church of Norway and previously Catholic. Anne died when Kristine was four, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Collett
Robert Collett (2 December 1842 – 27 January 1913) was a Norway, Norwegian zoologist. Collett was director and curator of the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo, Zoological Museum at University of Oslo. Robert Collett was born at Oslo, Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the eldest child of Professor Peter Jonas Collett (1813–51) and Camilla Collett (1813–95). His maternal uncles included Joseph Frantz Oscar Wergeland, Oscar and Henrik Wergeland, and his paternal uncles included Peter Severin Steenstrup. He had three younger brothers, including the writer and historian, Alf Collett. He never married.Robert Collett University of Oslo He attended the Latin School in Lillehammer and was a fellow in zoology at the University of Oslo. From 1864 he was curator at the Natural History Museum at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasvik Nature Reserve
Pasvik Nature Reserve (; ) is a bilateral nature reserve located along the Norway–Russia border. It is located in the Pasvikdalen valley in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway and in the Pechengsky District in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. The nature reserve was established in 1992 (Russia) and 1993 (Norway), and it covers an area of . The Norwegian part covers , while the Russian part covers . The nature reserve includes unexploited parts of Pasvikelva and has a rich birdlife. Along with Øvre Pasvik National Park and Øvre Pasvik Landscape Protection Area in Norway and Vätsäri Wilderness Area in Finland, Pasvik Nature Reserve constitutes part of Pasvik–Inari Trilateral Park. Geography Pasvik Nature Reserve consists of two legally separate but geographically adjoined protected areas, with a combined area of . Located in the valley of Pasvikdalen, it protects the river of Pasvikelva and its vicinity, straddling the Norway–Russia border, with of its a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
