Knut Markhus (7 November 1878 – 7 August 1963) was a Norwegian educator and politician. He was born in

Skånevik Skånevik is a former municipality in the old Hordaland county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1965. It included the land surrounding both sides of the Skånevikfjorden and its smaller branches: the Åkr ...

. He edited the newspaper ''

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'' from 1911 to 1913. In 1913 he founded the

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 ...

, where he eventually served as headmaster. He was elected to the

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from

Hordaland Hordaland () was a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland counties. Hordaland was the third largest county, after Akershus and Oslo, by population. The county government was the Hordaland County Munici ...

for the periods 1922–1930 and 1937–1945, representing the

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. He chaired

Noregs Mållag Noregs Mållag (literally "Language Organisation of Norway") is the main organisation for Norwegian Nynorsk (New Norwegian), one of the two official written standards of the Norwegian language Norwegian ( ) is a North Germanic language from th ...

from 1936 to 1946.

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1878 births 1961 deaths People from Sunnhordland Heads of schools in Norway Liberal Party (Norway) politicians Nynorsk-language writers Noregs Mållag leaders Norwegian educators Members of the Storting 1922–1924 Members of the Storting 1936–1945 {{Norway-politician-1870s-stub