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1922 In Norway
Events in the year 1922 in Norway. Incumbents *Monarch – Haakon VII Events * 8 January – The Social Democratic Youth League of Norway is founded. * 30 November – The establishment of Norwegian government-owned alcoholic beverage retailer "Vinmonopolet". * Fridtjof Nansen is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work as a League of Nations High Commissioner. * Municipal and county elections are held throughout the country. Popular culture Sports *Ole Reistad, pentathlete, is awarded the Egebergs Ærespris for achievements in multiple sports. Music Film Literature *The Olav Duun novel ''I ungdommen'' (''Odin Grows Up'') from the work ''Juvikfolket'' (''The People of Juvik'', 1918–23), was published. Notable births *6 January – Finn Mortensen, composer, critic and educator (died 1983) *20 January – Bjørn Endreson, actor, stage producer and theatre director (died 1998) *25 January **Just Faaland, political economist (died 2017) **Kåre Tveter, painter (died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monarchy Of Norway
The Norwegian monarch is the head of state of Norway, which is a constitutional and hereditary monarchy with a parliamentary system. The Norwegian monarchy can trace its line back to the reign of Harald Fairhair and the previous petty kingdoms which were united to form Norway; it has been in unions with both Sweden and Denmark for long periods. The present monarch is King Harald V, who has reigned since 17 January 1991, succeeding his father, Olav V. The heir apparent is his only son, Crown Prince Haakon. The crown prince undertakes various public ceremonial functions, as does the king's wife, Queen Sonja. The crown prince also acts as regent in the king's absence. There are several other members of the royal family, including the king's daughter, grandchildren and sister. Since the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden and the subsequent election of a Danish prince as King Haakon VII in 1905, the reigning royal house of Norway has been a branch of the Schleswig- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigbjørn Hølmebakk
Sigbjørn Hølmebakk (2 February 1922 – 25 November 1981) was a Norwegian author. Biography Hølmebakk was born at Feda (now Kvinesdal) in Vest-Agder, Norway. His parents were Søren Adolf Svindland (1881–1966) and Inger Marie Abrahamsen Møgedal (1888–1949). His brother was the publisher and author Gordon Hølmebakk. After attending trading school, Hølmebakk worked for a few years in Oslo. In 1943 he returned to Feda to take over the small farm. Hølmebakk's début in literature came in 1950 with the novel "Don't Talk About the Fall" (''Ikke snakk om høsten''). As an author he was a realist, who wrote of existential questions with force and skillfully explored social backgrounds. He was a much beloved author before he died at the relatively young age of 59. Many of Hølmebakk's works became the basis for films. “The Terrible Winter” (''Fimbulvinteren'') (1964) about the German military scorched earth policy during the Liberation of Finnmark by Soviet and Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilhelm Aubert
Johan Vilhelm Aubert (7 June 1922 – 19 July 1988) was an influential Norwegian sociologist. He was a professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo from 1963 to 1971 and at the Department of Sociology from 1971 to 1988. He co-founded the Norwegian Institute for Social Research already in 1950, and has been labelled the " father of Norwegian sociology". In his early life he was a member of the anti-Nazi resistance group XU, and while later involved on the radical wing of the Labour Party, he edited the newspaper ''Orientering''. Early career Vilhelm Aubert was born in Kristiania in 1922. He was the older brother of mathematician Karl Egil Aubert, born 1924. Vilhelm Aubert enrolled at the University of Oslo in 1940, the same year as Norway was invaded by Germany as a part of the Second World War. Aubert became a member of the illegal intelligence organization XU. Aubert finally graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1946. He then lived in the United States for two ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Store Norske Leksikon
The ''Great Norwegian Encyclopedia'' ( no, Store Norske Leksikon, abbreviated ''SNL''), is a Norwegian-language online encyclopedia. The online encyclopedia is among the most-read Norwegian published sites, with more than two million unique visitors per month. Paper editions 1978–2007 The ''SNL'' was created in 1978, when the two publishing houses Aschehoug and Gyldendal merged their encyclopedias and created the company Kunnskapsforlaget. Up until 1978 the two publishing houses of Aschehoug and Gyldendal, Norway's two largest, had published ' and ', respectively. The respective first editions were published in 1907–1913 (Aschehoug) and 1933–1934 (Gyldendal). The slump in sales for paper-based encyclopedias around the turn of the 21st century hit Kunnskapsforlaget hard, but a fourth edition of the paper encyclopedia was secured by a grant of ten million Norwegian kroner from the foundation Fritt Ord in 2003. The fourth edition consisted of 16 volumes, a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Roger
Edith Roger (born 29 May 1922) is a Norwegian dancer, choreographer and stage director. She was born in Vestby. She made her debut as dancer at Rogaland Teater in 1945. Her debut as stage director was ''Sangen om utysket'' at Nationaltheatret in 1967. She was decorated Knight of the Order of St. Olav in 1985, and was awarded the Arts Council Norway Honorary Award in 2002. In 2010 she received the Hedda Honorary Award. References External links * Edith Roger Biographyon Norsk Biografisk Leksikon is the largest Norwegian biographical encyclopedia. The first edition (NBL1) was issued between 1921 and 1983, including 19 volumes and 5,100 articles. It was published by Aschehoug with economic support from the state. bought the rights to ... 1922 births Living people People from Akershus People from Vestby Norwegian female dancers Norwegian choreographers Sportspeople from Viken (county) {{norway-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerda Boyesen
Gerda Boyesen (May 18, 1922December 29, 2005) was the founder of Biodynamic Psychology, a branch of Body Psychotherapy. Life Gerda Boyesen was born in 1922 in Bergen. Her first marriage was with Carl Christian Boyesen. In 1947 she read a book by Wilhelm Reich which made an impression on her. Shortly thereafter she began therapy with Ola Raknes, a vegetotherapist who had been trained by Reich. Later she studied psychology in Oslo and received training as physiotherapist which led to work with Aadel Bülow-Hansen. Through her own therapy Boyesen got to know the connection between repressed emotions and muscle tensions. In her book ''Über den Körper die Seele heilen'' she established and partly described in a very personal manner how she developed her own therapeutic method linking the beginnings of Wilhelm Reich, Carl Gustav Jung and Sigmund Freud, through her own studies, her own therapeutic experience as well as her own practice. Boyesen was the founder of "Biodynamic Psy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 In Norway
Events in the year 1993 in Norway. Incumbents * Monarch – Harald V * President of the Storting – Kirsti Kolle Grøndahl ( Labour Party) * Prime Minister – Gro Harlem Brundtland ( Labour Party) Events * 30 April – The registered partnership civil union law is passed. * 1 August – The registered partnership civil union law comes into effect, granting same-sex couples the same rights as married couples, except for the right to adopt or marry in a church. * 6 August – Kim Friele and Wenche Lowzow commit to the first civil union partnership under the new law. * 10 August – Black metal musician Varg Vikernes murders Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth, another black metal musician. Vikernes gets sentenced to 21 years in prison (maximum sentence under Norwegian law). * 20 August – Negotiations concerning agreements between the government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) are conducted secretly in Oslo and eventually conclude with the signing of the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norveig Karlsen
Norveig Karlsen (16 May 1922 – 9 March 1993) was a Norwegian artistic gymnast, born in Moss. She competed in gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U .... References External links * 1922 births 1993 deaths People from Moss, Norway Sportspeople from Østfold Norwegian female artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Norway Gymnasts at the 1952 Summer Olympics 20th-century Norwegian people {{Norway-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Olsen (resistance Member)
Frank Olsen (30 April 1922 – 17 March 1945) was a Norwegian resistance member who was executed during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. He was born in Vestby, and lived in Oslo. During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, he became involved in Milorg, and carried out a series of sabotage missions. On 13 February 1945, Olsen was going to plan a sabotage action to take place on the same evening, together with Adolf Bogstad and Storm Weinholdt, in the latter's home at Kampen. Before either of these arrived, two Gestapo officers, one German and one Norwegian, arrived in the Weinholdt family's home to check on Storm Weinholdt's brother Kjell. As Kjell was not home either, the Gestapo officers waited in the living room. Bogstad and Storm Weinholdt soon arrived, and while the Gestapo officers became suspicious of the rendez-vous, the men stated that they were planning an outdoors trip. They were searched, and knew that they had to leave before Frank Olsen showed up, as Ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viking Olver Eriksen
Viking Olver Eriksen (14 April 1922 – 6 March 2014) was a Norwegian nuclear physicist. He was born in Stavanger, and graduated as cand.real. in 1951. In 1952 he was hired at the Institute for Nuclear Energy at Kjeller—the institution is now named the Norwegian Institute for Energy Technology—as head of the physics department. He left this position in 1965 to become assisting director. In 1968 he was managing director for a brief time, from 1971 to 1982 he held this position on a permanent basis. He died in Lillestrøm Lillestrøm is a municipality in Viken county. It is located in the traditional district of Romerike. With a population of 85,757 inhabitants, it is the fourth most populated municipality in Viken. It was founded on 1 January 2020 as a merger be ... in March 2014 at the age of 91. References 1922 births 2014 deaths Norwegian nuclear physicists People from Stavanger {{Physicist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odd Steinar Holøs
Odd Steinar Holøs (8 April 1922 – 31 August 2001) was a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party. He was born in Rakkestad. From 1956 to 1957 he was the chairman of the Youth of the Christian People's Party, the youth wing of the Christian Democratic Party. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Østfold in 1981, and was re-elected on one occasion. He had previously served in the position of deputy representative during the terms 1958–1961, 1961–1965, 1965–1969, 1969–1973, 1973–1977 and 1977–1981. He met as a regular representative in 1972 and 1973 meanwhile Lars Korvald was Prime Minister. In 1963, during the short-lived cabinet Lyng, he was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Social Affairs. On the local level, Holøs served as deputy mayor of Rakkestad Rakkestad is a municipality in Viken county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Rakkestad. It is divided into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristoffer Lepsøe
Kristoffer Lepsøe (15 March 1922 – 26 March 2006) was a Norwegian competition rower and Olympic medalist. He received a bronze medal in the men's eight at the 1948 Summer Olympics, as a member of the Norwegian team. Lepsøe received a bronze medal in coxless four at the 1949 European championships. He competed in the coxless four at the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin .... References 1922 births 2006 deaths Norwegian male rowers Olympic rowers for Norway Rowers at the 1948 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Norway Olympic medalists in rowing Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Bergen European Rowing Championships medalists {{Norway-Olympic-medalist-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
