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1938 In Norway
Events in the year 1938 in Norway. Incumbents * List of Norwegian monarchs, Monarch – Haakon VII. * Heads of government of Norway, Prime Minister – Johan Nygaardsvold (Norwegian Labour Party, Labour Party) Events * 14 January – Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica. * 20 November – Maud of Wales, Queen Maud of Norway dies * Construction starts on Kristiansand Airport, Kjevik Undated *The Norwegian Mining Museum is established. Popular culture Sports Music Film Literature d’Aulaires’ Book of Norwegian Folktales - first printed in 1938 Notable births January *2 January – Hans Herbjørnsrud, short story writer. *9 January – Agnar Sandmo, economist and professor (died 2019). *10 January – Thor Bjarne Bore, newspaper editor and politician (died 2019). *13 January – Kåre Rønnes, soccer player and coach *16 January – Helga Hernes, political scientist, diplomat and politician. *18 January – Rolf Ketil Bjørn, businessperson and politician (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Norwegian Monarchs
The list of Norwegian monarchs ( no, kongerekken or ''kongerekka'') begins in 872: the traditional dating of the Battle of Hafrsfjord, after which victorious King Harald Fairhair merged several petty kingdoms into that of his father. Named after the homonymous geographical region, Harald's realm was later to be known as the Kingdom of Norway. Traditionally established in 872 and existing continuously for over 1,100 years, the Kingdom of Norway is one of the original states of Europe: King Harald V, who has reigned since 1991, is the 64th monarch according to the official list. During interregna, Norway has been ruled by variously titled regents. Several royal dynasties have possessed the Throne of the Kingdom of Norway: the more prominent include the Fairhair dynasty (872–970), the House of Sverre (1184–1319), and the House of Oldenburg (1450–1481, 1483–1533, 1537–1814, and from 1905) including branches Holstein-Gottorp (1814–1818) and Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helga Hernes
Helga Marie Hernes (born 16 January 1938) is a German-born Norwegian political scientist, diplomat, and politician for the Labour Party. Educated in the United States, she moved to Norway following her marriage to Norwegian sociologist and politician Gudmund Hernes whom she met during her studies. She was on faculty at the at the University of Bergen from 1970 to 1980 and subsequently held a number of positions in research management. Her research during the 1970s and 1980s focused on international politics, women's studies and the welfare state, and she is well known for her concept of state feminism, articulated in 1987. Her recent research has focused on gender, armed conflict and security, including the implications of the UN resolution on women, peace and security. In 1988 she joined Gro Harlem Brundtland's government as State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After leaving the government in 1993 she was Director of the Centre for International Climate and E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sverre Olaf Lie
Sverre Olaf Lie (27 February 1938 – 8 March 2023) was a Norwegian pediatrician. He was head of the Pediatric Research Institute at University of Oslo from 1975 till 1989 and chairman and professor at the department of pediatrics at the National Hospital of Norway, Rikshospitalet from 1989 till 2006. Early life Lie was born in Oslo. When he was four years old, his father Bjarne Lie lost his job as a lawyer due to problems with the Nazi authorities. The family moved to Sulitjelma, where Bjarne had got the post as office manager at the Sulitjelma Mines. The early years there were marked by the Nazi occupation. His father was central in the local resistance movement (the leader of the local chapter of XU, a clandestine intelligence organisation), and there was a general scarcity. The family was gifted a barrel of herring from family in the south and they would have herring for dinner every day. In later life, he would never again eat herring! But Sulitjelma remained in his heart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Brenden
Marie Brenden (27 February 1938 – 31 July 2012) was a Norwegian educator and politician for the Labour Party. She was born in Kvam, Nord-Trøndelag as a daughter of smallholders Arnfinn Forfang (1913–1994) and Mimmi Haave (1912–1985). She finished secondary education in 1959, and took teacher's college in 1962. She spent most of her career at the primary school Saksheim in Saksumdal near Fåberg, where she was headmaster from 1979 to 1985. Brenden was a member of the executive committee of Lillehammer municipal council from 1975 to 1983, and of the executive committee of Oppland county council from 1983 to 1987. She was elected to the Parliament of Norway from Oppland in 1985, and was re-elected on two occasions in 1989 and 1993. She served as a deputy representative during the term 1981–1985. She was a member of the Standing Committee on Social Affairs from 1985 to 1993, except from 1989 to 1990 when she was a member of the Standing Committee on Justice. For her las ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristian Rambjør
Kristian Rambjør (24 February 1938 – 4 February 2015) was a Norwegian businessperson. He hailed from Frei, but left home at the age of 15 to work at Akers mekaniske verksted in Oslo. He also took a secondary education and a multitude of courses, and then a three-year maritime engineering education in Bergen. He advanced in the ranks of Akers Mek. and headed the corporate staff in Aker Norcem from 1987 to 1988. He then embarked on a turbulent banking career, as chief executive officer of Den norske Creditbank from 1988 to 1990, then vice chief executive in Den norske Bank in 1990. From 1990 to 1995 he was the president of the Norwegian State Railways He was removed with a golden parachute of . He resided in Tjøme Tjøme () is an island in Færder, and a former municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Tjøme. The parish of ''Tjømø'' was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see f ... and was activ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inge Lønning
Inge Johan Lønning (20 February 1938 – 24 March 2013) was a Norwegian Lutheran theologian and politician for the Conservative Party of Norway. As an academic, he was Professor of Theology and Rector of the University of Oslo during the term 1985–1992. As a politician, he served as President of the European Movement in Norway, as a Member of Parliament, as Vice President of the Parliament, as Vice President of the Conservative Party, and as President of the Nordic Council. Biography Lønning was born in Fana, Bergen, Norway. He was the son of Per Lønning (1898–1974) and Anna Gurine Strømø (1895–1966). His older brother was Bishop Per Lønning (1928-2016). He earned his cand. theol. degree from the University of Oslo in 1962 and finished the practical-theological seminar in 1963. He continued his academic career with a fellowship from 1963 to 1971, with a year's interruption for military service as a chaplain in the Norwegian Navy. He earned his doctorate in theo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anita Thallaug
Anita Thallaug (born 14 February 1938) is a Norwegian actress and singer. Biography Thallaug was born in Bærum on 14 February 1938. She has featured in musicals, cinema and TV programs. Under the name Vesla Rolfsen, at the age of seven, she was performing at the Spider theatre in Oslo. She featured frequently in NRK children's programs of the 1950s. Thallaug was the Norwegian contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest 1963, with the song "Solhverv", where she finished 13th (last). She was the first of four Norwegian entrants to score no points in the competition. Anita Thallaug is the younger sister of opera singer Edith Thallaug. Melodi Grand Prix entries Films *1990: '' Den spanske flue'' (The Spanish Fly) (TV) Mrs Meisel *1964: ''Klokker i måneskinn'' (Watches in the Moonlight) Mannekeng, 'Manager of affairs' *1962: ''Operation Løvsprett'' Søster Bitten *1957: ''Blondin i fara'' (Blonde in Danger) (Swedish film) Mona Mace *1954: ''I moralens navn ''I moralens navn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Per Norvik
Per Kristian Norvik (born February 10, 1938) is a Norwegian journalist and editor. Biography Per Kristian Norvik was born in Vadsø, Norway on February 10, 1938. He is the older brother of businessman Harald Norvik and a cousin of politician Erling Norvik. Norvik began his medical studies in 1957, but dropped out in 1959 to become a journalist at '' Morgenbladet''. From 1965 to 1970 he worked at ''Aftenposten''. Since 1970 he worked as editor at ''Arbeidsgiveren'' (1970-1972), and as a political journalist at NRK (1972-1978). Norvik joined ''Verdens Gang'' in 1978, where he worked as associate editor (1978-1986), and political editor (1986-1993). In November 1993 Norvik left ''Verdens Gang'' together with its editor Einar Hanseid Einar Hanseid (born 19 November 1943) is a Norwegian retired newspaper editor. Biography Hanseid was born in Sandefjord, Norway. He started as a journalist in ''Sandefjords Blad'' from 1965 to 1966 and was the subeditor of '' Bondebladet'' from ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raphael Høegh-Krohn
Jan Raphael Høegh-Krohn (10 February 1938 – 24 January 1988) was a Norwegian mathematician. He finished his Ph.D. in 1966, titled ''On Partly Gentle Perturbation with Application to Perturbation by Annihilation-Creation Operator,'' under the supervision of Kurt Friedrichs at the New York University. He authored over 150 papers and is known for the discovery of a fundamental duality in relativistic quantum statistical mechanics Quantum statistical mechanics is statistical mechanics applied to quantum mechanical systems. In quantum mechanics a statistical ensemble (probability distribution over possible quantum states) is described by a density operator ''S'', which is a ... by representing the basic correlation functions in terms of a certain stochastic process, now known as the Høegh-Krohn process. Books * Albeverio, Sergio; Gesztesy, Friedrich; Høegh-Krohn, Raphael; Holden, Helge: Solvable models in quantum mechanics. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer-Verlag, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kjell Henriksen
Kjell Henriksen (1 February 1938 – 3 April 1996) was a Norwegian scientist, professor at the University of Tromsø and researcher with a special interest in the polar lights. For his effort in researching the polar lights a new observatory has been named after him, the Kjell Henriksen Observatory on Svalbard Svalbard ( , ), also known as Spitsbergen, or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. North of mainland Europe, it is about midway between the northern coast of Norway and the North Pole. The islands of the group range .... External linksThe Kjell Henriksen Observatory 1938 births 1996 deaths [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tor Obrestad
Tor Obrestad (12 February 1938 – 25 January 2020) was a Norwegian novelist, poet and documentary writer. Early and personal life Obrestad was born in Hå on 12 February 1938. His parents were farmer Jon R. Obrestad and Sophie Riise. He studied at the teacher's college in Elverum and worked as a schoolteacher, and then studied at the University of Oslo. He eventually became a full-time writer, and was also assigned as journalist for the newspaper ''Stavanger Aftenblad''. He died on 25 January 2020. Literary career Obrestad made his literary debut in 1966 with two books, the poetry collection ''Kollisjon'' and a collection of short stories, ''Vind'', and received Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris for these two books. He was a member of the so-called ''Profil generation'' in 1968, the circle attached to the literary magazine ''Profil''. He wrote biographies on Arne Garborg, Hulda Garborg, Alexander Kielland and Einar Førde. His novel ''Sauda! Streik!'' from 1972 was adapted for a fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
