Werner Werenskiold (28 April 1883 – 2 August 1961) was a Norwegian geologist and geographer. He was a son of Erik Werenskiold and visual artist Sophie Marie Stoltenberg Thomesen (1849–1926), and the brother of Dagfin Werenskiold. Werenskiold made field studies in

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and

Gudbrandsdalen Gudbrandsdalen (; ) is a valley and Districts of Norway, traditional district in the Norway, Norwegian county of Innlandet (formerly Oppland). The valley is oriented in a north-westerly direction from Lillehammer (town), Lillehammer and the lake ...

in his younger days, and later focused on studies at

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and of

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. He was the principal editor of the two-volume series ''Norge, vårt land'' (1936 – 1941) and the book series ''Jorden vår klode''. He was a professor of geography at the

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from 1925. He lived and died in

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, and was on the election ballot for the Liberal People's Party (formerly the Liberal Left Party) in the 1930s. The mountain of Werenskioldfjellet at Hopen, Svalbard is named after him. The glacier of Werenskioldbreen in

Wedel Jarlsberg Land Wedel Jarlsberg Land is the land area between Van Keulenfjorden and Hornsund on the southwestern part of Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The area is largely covered with glaciers, and is completely within the Sør-Spitsbergen National Park Sør-Spi ...

, Svalbard is also named after him.

Bibliography (in selection)

*Text to geological map of the region between Sætersdalen and Ringerike, ''Norges geologiske undersøkelse'' no. 66, 1912 *Norges fysiske og økonomiske geografi for gymnasiet (sm.m. E. Haffner), 1912 (8'th issue 1936) *Tekst til geologisk oversiktskart over det sydlige Norge. Maalestok 1:1 000 000, ''Norges geologiske undersøkelse'' no. 70, 1914, pp. 13–35 *Mean Monthly Air Transport over the North Pacific Ocean, dr.avh., ''Geofysiske Publikasjoner'', vol. 2 no. 9, 1922 *Fysisk geografi, 2 bd., 1925–43 (issue 1: ''Geofysikk, meteorologi, oseanografi'', 1925, bd. 2: ''Landkarter, landjordens form'', 1943) *Geografi, tiltredelsesforelesning, in NGT 1927, pp. 1–9 *Jorden, dets land og folk, 2 bd., 1931–34 *Norge vårt land, 2 bd., 1936–41 (4'th issue in 3 bd., 1957) *Jord, vann, luft, ild. ''Fysisk geografi for hvermann'', 1952 *''Jorden vår klode'' (sm.m. T. Width), 2 bd., 1956

References

1883 births 1961 deaths Norwegian expatriates in France Norwegian geographers 20th-century Norwegian geologists Academic staff of the University of Oslo Free-minded Liberal Party politicians Bærum politicians 20th-century geographers {{Norway-academic-bio-stub