Alf Collett (8 August 1844 – 12 June 1919) was a Norwegian writer and historian.Collett family

Biography

Alf Collett was born at

Eidsvoll Eidsvoll (; sometimes written as ''Eidsvold'') is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Akershus Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Romerike Districts of Norway, traditional region. The administrative centre of the munic ...

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, Norway. He was the second son of professor

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(1813-1851) and

Camilla Collett Jacobine Camilla Collett (née Wergeland; 23 January 1813 – 6 March 1895) was a Norwegian writer, often referred to as the first Norwegian feminist. She was also the younger sister of Norwegian poet Henrik Wergeland, and is recognized as being ...

(1813-1895). His maternal uncles included

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and

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 develop ...

, and his paternal uncles included Peter Severin Steenstrup. He had one older brother

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, a notable zoologist, and two younger brothers. He married Mathilda Sophie Kallevig (1845-1915), but they did not have any children. He attended

Oslo Cathedral School Schola Osloensis, known in Norwegian language, Norwegian as Oslo Katedralskole (''Oslo Cathedral School'') and more commonly as "Katta",

. He became

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in 1865. From 1867 he was employed in the Ministry of Marine and Post Affairs and became bureau chief in 1880. In 1885, he was transferred to the Ministry of Defense and from 1899 to 1919 he was director general of the Naval Administration. He was made a knight 1st Grade of the

Order of Saint Olav The Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav (; or ''Sanct Olafs Orden'', the old Norwegian name) is a Norwegian order of chivalry instituted by King Oscar I on 21 August 1847. It is named after Olaf II of Norway, King Olav II, known to posterity as S ...

. He died during 1919 at Kristiania and was buried at

Vår Frelsers gravlund The Cemetery of Our Saviour () is a cemetery in Oslo, Norway, located north of Hammersborg in Gamle Aker district. It is located adjacent to the older Old Aker Cemetery and was created in 1808 as a result of the great famine and cholera epidemi ...

He published many historical and

genealogical Genealogy () is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kin ...

works,List of publications in BIBSYS
/ref> the most important being ''En gammel Christiania-slægt'' (1883) and ''Gamle Christiania-Billeder'' (1893).

Selected works

*''Familien Collett'', 1872 *''Familien Elieson'', 1881 *''Fladeby'', 1881 *''Raadmand Peder Pedersen Müllers Efterkommere'', 1881 *''Gamle Christiania-Billeder'', 1893 *''Camilla Colletts livs historie belyst ved hendes breve og dagbøker'', 1911 *''En gammel Christiania-Slægt'', 1883

References

External links

The family tree of Alf Collett on Geni.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Collett, Alf 1844 births 1919 deaths People from Eidsvoll People educated at Oslo Cathedral School Norwegian jurists 19th-century Norwegian historians Norwegian genealogists Norwegian non-fiction writers Alf Norwegian people of English descent Order of Saint Olav Burials at the Cemetery of Our Saviour