Aslak Torjusson (4 March 1891 – 26 April 1973) was a Norwegian educator. He was born in

Rauland Rauland is a former municipality in Telemark county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1860 until its dissolution in 1964. The area is now part of Vinje Municipality. The administrative centre was the village of Raulandsgrend (also known ...

. He took teacher's education in

Holmestrand is a List of towns and cities in Norway, town in Holmestrand Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The town is the administrative centre of the municipality. It is located along the shore of the Ytre Oslofjord, about northwest of the Horten ...

in 1912, finished secondary education in 1918 and graduated from the

Royal Frederick University The University of Oslo (; ) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the oldest university in Norway. Originally named the Royal Frederick University, the university was established in 1811 as the de facto Norwegian conti ...

with the cand.philol. degree in 1923. While doing so he was a primary school teacher from 1912 to 1920 and then a teacher at Telemark Folk High School for four years. From 1927 to 1936 he was the secretary of

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. He was then the headmaster of Buskerud Folk High School from 1936 to 1952 and lecturer at Sagene Teachers' College from 1952 to 1961. He was also a board member of the

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from 1933 to 1947. He issued the book ''Frøydis Haavardsholm og norsk leid i dekorativ kunst'' in 1933. He did not manage to complete his standard work about Norwegian

folk high school Folk high schools (also ''adult education center'') are institutions for adult education that generally do not grant academic degrees, though certain courses might exist leading to that goal. They are most commonly found in Nordic countries and i ...

s—''Den norske folkehøgskulen. Opphav og grunnlag''—within his lifespan, but it was finished by Helge Dahl in 1977. He died in April 1973. His daughter Anne Torjusson Diesen was assisting director of television in the

in the 1990s, and an experienced journalist covering the Norwegian Royal Court. She was married to

Erik Diesen Erik Tangevald Diesen (8 October 1922 – 13 September 1999) was a Norwegian revue writer and radio and television personality. Personal life Born in Kristiania on 8 October 1922, Diesen was a son of Thorstein Diesen, Jr. (1894–1962) and ...

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1891 births 1973 deaths People from Vinje University of Oslo alumni Heads of schools in Norway Norwegian educationalists Noregs Mållag Nynorsk-language writers {{Norway-academic-bio-stub