Oscar Collett (9 December 1877 – 1950) was a Norwegian landowner and benefactor.
He was born in
Trondhjem
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Emil Collett
Emil Collett (22 December 1875 – 9 June 1940) was a Norwegian chemist and entrepreneur.Emil Collett in: ''.
He was a forester by education, and spent his career as an executive of the family-owned forest estate company Firma Albert Collett together with his brothers Johan and Axel. The company still operates hundreds of square miles of forest in
Namdalen
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, as well as several hydroelectric power stations.
Collett became a member of the gentlemen's skiing club SK Fram in 1890, the club's second year of existence. From 1935 he served as a supervisory council member of the insurance company Forsikringsselskapet Viking, together with many acquaintances from Fram.
He was a deputy board member of the
Norwegian Forestry Society
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It was established as ''Det norske Skogselskab'' in 1898, with Axel Heiberg as its first chairman. Its purpose is to promote forestry ...
and the Det norske Myrselskap. He was also a co-founder of the first incarnation of the
Norwegian Ornithological Society
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It was founded in 1957, though it was preceded by a similar body with the same name which operated from 1920 to 1935. It is BirdLife Internat ...
and its journal ''Norsk Ornithologisk Tidsskrift'' in 1920. By the end of 1920 Collett had become the single largest benefactor to the journal; with a gift of he had contributed 22% of the journal's assets, more than twice as much as any other individual. He sat on the Ornithological Society's interim board until the first general assembly in 1922, where he was elected deputy board member.
Oscar Collett died in 1950, and was buried at
Vestre gravlund
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. His son
Carl Oscar Collett
Carl Oscar Collett (2 February 1922 – 21 May 2008) was a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the Conservative Party.
He was born in Kristiania as a son of forester Oscar Collett (1877–1950) and Maria Iversen. He was a grandson of Alb ...
, who was born 1922 and whose mother was Maria Iversen, became a landowner and politician. Carl Oscar became a son-in-law of
Henning Bødtker
Henning Bremer Bødtker (14 August 1891 – 19 November 1975) was a Norwegian jurist and civil servant. He was the Attorney General of Norway from 1945 to 1962.
Personal life
He was born in Svelvik as a son of ship captain Jacob Bødtker (1847â ...
, and was admitted to SK Fram, continuing the family tradition.
Oscar
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