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Aasen (other)
Aasen is a Norwegian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Arne Paasche Aasen (1901–1978), Norwegian politician, journalist and poet * Augusta Aasen (1878–1920), Norwegian politician *Elisabeth Aasen (1922–2009), Norwegian politician *Ivar Aasen (1813–1896), Norwegian philologist, lexicographer and writer * John Aasen (1890–1938), American actor * Liv Aasen (1928–2005), Norwegian politician * Mats Zuccarello Aasen (born 1987), Norwegian ice hockey player *Nils Waltersen Aasen (1878–1925), Norwegian arms inventor *Otto Aasen (1894–1983), Norwegian Nordic skier *Marianne Aasen (born 1967), Norwegian Labour politician See also *Ivar Aasen-sambandet Ivar Aasen-sambandet (The Ivar Aasen Union) is an umbrella organization of associations and individuals promoting the use of the Høgnorsk variant of the Norwegian language. History The union was founded in 1965 as a response to the ''samnorsk'' ..., Norwegian philological organisation * Aas (surname) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arne Paasche Aasen
Arne Paasche Aasen (18 June 1901 – 1 November 1978) was a Norwegian politician, journalist and poet, who worked for the labour movement. He was born in Steinkjer as a son of teacher and politician Augusta Aasen, née Paasche (1878–1920) and typographer Edolf Aasen (1877–1969). The family soon moved to Kristiania. In 1927 he married Valborg "Vaps" Moe (1901–1994). His sister was married to Paul Gauguin for some years. He joined the Norwegian Labour Party at an early age. His mother was a central figure here before her early death. Aasen was also a member of the Left Communist Youth League and was present at the congress of 24 April 1927 when the Left Communist Youth League was merged with the Socialist Youth League to found the Workers' Youth League. His poetic debut came in 1921 with the collection ''Sigd og hammer'' ("Sickle and Hammer"), where he hailed the revolution and Vladimir Lenin. Later highlights among his poetry collections were ''Høstens have'' (1923), ''Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augusta Aasen
Augusta Aasen, née Paasche (19 May 1878 – 3 August 1920) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She was born in Osen as a daughter of Fredrik Christian Paasche and Pauline Sivertsdatter Vaagen. Together with book printer Edolf Aasen (1877–1969) she had the son Arne Paasche Aasen, a well-known poet. She hailed from Steinkjer, and was a member of Trondhjem city council from 1908 to 1911. She was the first female council member in Norway's third largest city. She then moved to Kristiania and was a secretary in Norges Socialdemokratiske Ungdomsforbund from 1912 to 1914. She also worked in the newspaper '' Direkte Aktion''. Politically, she was a board member of Kristiania Labour Party, and a deputy board member of the central board. In 1920, she was the only female Norwegian delegate to the Second Comintern Congress.Maurseth, 1987: p. 139 Here she died at the airport when she was hit by an airplane propeller. She was buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis The Kremli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Aasen
Elisabeth Aasen (9 February 1922 – 12 November 2009) was a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Electoral League. She served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal (; en, Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the town of Molde, while Ålesund is the ... during the term 1973–1977. In total she met during 13 days of parliamentary session. References 1922 births 2009 deaths Deputy members of the Storting Socialist Left Party (Norway) politicians Møre og Romsdal politicians Women members of the Storting 20th-century Norwegian women politicians 20th-century Norwegian politicians {{Norway-politician-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivar Aasen
Ivar Andreas Aasen (; 5 August 1813 – 23 September 1896) was a Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet. He is best known for having assembled one of the two official written versions of the Norwegian language, Nynorsk, from various dialects. Background He was born as Iver Andreas Aasen at Åsen in Ørsta (then Ørsten), in the district of Sunnmøre, on the west coast of Norway. His father, a peasant with a small farm, Ivar Jonsson, died in 1826. The younger Ivar was brought up to farmwork, but he assiduously cultivated all his leisure in reading. An early interest of his was botany. When he was eighteen, he opened an elementary school in his native parish. In 1833 he entered the household of Hans Conrad Thoresen, the husband of the eminent writer Magdalene Thoresen, in Herøy (then Herø), and there he picked up the elements of Latin. Gradually, and by dint of infinite patience and concentration, the young peasant mastered many languages, and began the sci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Aasen
John Aasen (March 5, 1890 – August 1, 1938) was an American silent film actor and sideshow performer who was one of the tallest actors in history. Early life Aasen was born on March 5, 1890, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His mother, Kristi (Danielsen) from Rollag in Numedal, was an extremely tall Norwegian woman of around 2.20 m (almost 7 ft 3 inches) in height (latest information from September 2008, sets her height to 188 cm, almost 6 ft 2 inches). It is not certain who his father was, but according to Aasen's sister Evelyn (who died in 1988), his father was Alfred Aasen. When Aasen was 10 years old, he and his mother moved from Ridgeway, Iowa (where his uncle Sam/Sevre lived with his wife Cornelia) to Sheyenne, North Dakota with his two younger siblings. Aasen was a Freemason. He rose to the degree of Master Mason at Highland Park Lodge No. 382, Los Angeles on July 14, 1924.Denslow, William R. 10,000 Famous Freemasons, Vol. I, A-D. When in Sheyenne, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liv Aasen
Liv Aasen (21 September 1928 – 21 August 2005) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. Aasen was born in Bergen. She was elected to the Parliament of Norway from Sør-Trøndelag in 1969, and was re-elected on four occasions, serving twenty years. On the local level she was a member of Kongsberg city council from 1955 to 1959 and of Trondheim city council from 1959 to 1963. Outside politics she worked as a school teacher in Fana, Kongsberg, Trondheim and Geneva Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaki .... Aasen was married to Per Aasen, Norway's former ambassador to Iceland. References 1928 births 2005 deaths Norwegian schoolteachers Members of the Storting Labour Party (Norway) politicians People from Kongsberg Politicians from Trondheim Women membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mats Zuccarello Aasen
Mats André Zuccarello Aasen (born 1 September 1987) is a Norwegian professional ice hockey winger for the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has also played for the New York Rangers and Dallas Stars. Prior to joining the NHL, Zuccarello previously played for Modo Hockey in the Swedish Elite League. In 2010, he won the Guldhjälmen (Golden Helmet), awarded annually to the most valuable player in the Swedish Hockey League. He is regarded as one of the best Norwegian players to play in the NHL. Early life Zuccarello grew up in the suburbs of Løren in Oslo and began playing hockey at age five. After several years at Hasle-Løren, he began playing for Vålerenga, where he stayed until the end of lower secondary school. By that time, he had been scouted by Frisk Asker, which offered him a scholarship at the Norwegian College of Elite Sport, which he accepted. Zuccarello is of Italian descent from his mother's side. He has a younger brother, Fabian, who plays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nils Waltersen Aasen
Nils Waltersen Aasen (30 March 1878 – 27 December 1925) was a Norwegian arms inventor. He has been credited with having developed the modern hand grenade and land mine just prior to World War I. Biography Aasen was born at Stadsbygd in Rissa, Norway. He graduated in 1903 from the Fortress-Artillery School for Non-Commissioned Officers () at Oscarsborg Fortress. He started his experiments developing a hand grenade while serving as a sergeant at Oscarsborg. He was encouraged in his work by base commander and former defense minister Hans Georg Stang. However, the Norwegian Department of Defense showed little interest in Aasen's prototype. He then formed Aasen's Grenade Company (''Det Aasenske Granatkompani'') in Copenhagen, Denmark, which produced and exported of his grenade throughout Europe. Apart from new types of explosives, trench mortars, airplane bombs and land mines he also created several inventions for civil use. However, it was the development and production of arms t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Aasen
Otto Aasen (1 January 1894 – 20 October 1983) was a Norwegian Nordic skier. He was born in Fåberg, but moved to Rjukan in 1916. He spent his working career at Norsk Hydro in Rjukan from 1916 to 1964. He won the Nordic combined at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1917 and 1918. For his Nordic combined victories, Aasen shared the Holmenkollen medal in 1919 with Thorleif Haug. Aasen also competed in ski jumping, and won a silver medal in the individual large hill at the 1926 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti. He also competed in cross-country skiing Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreation ... on a national level. References 1894 births 1983 deaths Holmenkollen medalists Holmenkollen Ski Festival winners Norwegian male Nordic combined skiers Norwegi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Aasen
Marianne Aasen (born 21 February 1967) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She was born in Bergen, but grew up in Moss. She graduated with a cand.polit. degree in 1993 from the University of Oslo. She worked as a journalist in ''Arbeiderbladet'' from 1991 to 1993 and Avisenes Nyhetsbyrå from 1993 to 1995. She was then information director of the European Movement Norway from 1998 to 2000. In her party she worked as a political advisor for the Labour Party parliamentary group from 1995 to 1996 and 2001 to 2005. From 2000 to 2001, during the first cabinet Stoltenberg, she was a political advisor in the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development. Aasen has never held local political office, but chaired the party chapter in Asker from 2003 to 2004. She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Akershus in 2005. For twelve years she was married to Simen Agdestein, an International Grandmaster of chess Chess is a board game for two players, call ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivar Aasen-sambandet
Ivar Aasen-sambandet (The Ivar Aasen Union) is an umbrella organization of associations and individuals promoting the use of the Høgnorsk variant of the Norwegian language. History The union was founded in 1965 as a response to the ''samnorsk'' policy (aiming to merge the two languages Nynorsk and Bokmål) prevailing with Noregs Mållag (Norwegian Language Union). In 2002, Norway officially abandoned the samnorsk policy, like the majority of Noregs Mållag did during the 1990s. This decade also saw the revitalization of the Høgnorsk movement, which took place inside of ''Noregs Mållag'' as well. The split between the two movements was now only organizational, and the Høgnorsk movement no longer looked upon the other part as an enemy; however, it maintained that it had "a certain task" in the common works on the Norwegian language Norwegian ( no, norsk, links=no ) is a North Germanic language spoken mainly in Norway, where it is an official language. Along with Swedish an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aas (surname)
Aas or Ås may refer to: *Alexander Aas (born 1978), Norwegian football defender *Alf-Jørgen Aas (1915–1981), Norwegian painter *Arto Aas (born 1980), Estonian politician *Berit Ås (born 1928), Norwegian politician * Einar Jan Aas (born 1955), Norwegian footballer *Erling Aas-Eng (born 1965), Norwegian politician * Johan Aas (born 1960), Norwegian politician *Kari Aas (1886–1978), Norwegian teacher and Scout leader *Karl Aas (1899–1943), Norwegian gymnast *Kätlin Aas (born 1992), Estonian model *Kim Aas (born 1970), Danish politician * Nils Aas (1933–2004), Norwegian sculptor *Per Almar Aas (1929–2014), Norwegian politician *Rene Aas (born 1969), Estonian motorcycle racer * Roald Aas (1928–2012), Norwegian speed skater and cyclist * Taavi Aas (born 1966), Estonian politician, acting Mayor of Tallinn September 2015 * Th. Valentin Aass (1887–1961), Norwegian sailboat racer See also *Ås (other) Ås is the Scandinavian language word for an esker, a rid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
