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Knud Knudsen (cyclist)
Knud Knudsen is the name of: * Knud Knudsen (linguist) (1812–1895), Norwegian linguist * Knud Knudsen (photographer) (1832–1915), professional photographer * Knud Leonard Knudsen (1879–1954), gymnast * Knud Christian Knudsen (1887–1969), Norwegian merchant and politician * Knut Knudsen (born 12 October 1950), retired Norwegian road and track cyclist {{hndis, Knudsen, Knud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knud Knudsen (linguist)
Knud Knudsen (January 6, 1812 March 30, 1895) was a Norwegian educator, author, linguist and philologist, known as "The Father of Bokmål". He is best known for having assembled from Dano-Norwegian one of the two official written versions of the Norwegian language, Bokmål, one of the two official written versions of the Norwegian language. Biography Knud Knudsen was born at Tvedestrand in Agder, Norway. He was first Adjunct Professor in Drammen until 1846, when he was appointed headmaster at the Christiania Cathedral School, a position he held until 1880. Knudsen became involved in the development of the national debate which resulted in the ''Riksmål'' (later ''Bokmål'') and ''Landsmål'' (later ''Nynorsk'') forms of the written Norwegian language. As an educator, he had observed that students had difficulty writing in the Danish language, when they spoke the Norwegian language. He came to believe that the written language should be changed to match common speech. In thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knud Knudsen (photographer)
Knud Knudsen (3 January 1832 – 21 May 1915) was one of Norway's first professional photographers and a pioneer within Norwegian photography. His work includes images from most of Norway in his time and documents much of Norwegian history and ethnology in his photography career 1862–1900. Knudsen was born in Odda, the son of a merchant who was also a pomologist. His professional career started as a retail clerk in Bergen, and in 1862 he traveled to Reutlingen Reutlingen (; Swabian: ''Reitlenga'') is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the capital of the eponymous district of Reutlingen. As of June 2018, it has a population of 115,818. Reutlingen has a university of applied sciences, which ... to study pomology. He returned with an enthusiasm for photography the year after and opened his photography business in Bergen 1864. Knud Knudsen left a collection of 13.500 wet and dry plate negatives, and about 20.000 of albumin silver prints. The negative and print c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knud Leonard Knudsen
Knud Leonard Knudsen (6 September 1879 – 28 April 1954) was a Norwegian gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Norwegian team, which won the gold medal in the gymnastics men's team, free system event. He was born in Ålesund and died in Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula o ..., and represented Bergens TF. References 1879 births 1954 deaths Norwegian male artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 1912 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts of Norway Olympic gold medalists for Norway Sportspeople from Ålesund Olympic medalists in gymnastics {{Norway-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics 20th-century Norwegian people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knud Christian Knudsen
Knud Christian Knudsen (18 January 1887 – 24 May 1969) was a Norwegian merchant and politician for the Conservative Party. He was born in Drammen; the son of wholesaler August Martinius Knudsen (1858–1922) and Anne Margrethe Høstad (1858–1905). He was a nephew of vicar and politician Christoffer Knudsen. He finished Kristiania Commerce School in 1906 and was hired in a wholesaling company in Hamburg in the same year. From 1908 he worked in his father's company ''Aug. M. Knudsen & Søn'' from 1908. It became a public company in 1916, and Knudsen was the manager and majority owner. He was a member of Drammen city council from 1928 to 1945, with tenures as deputy mayor from 1931 to 1934 and in 1945. He was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1936, representing the Market towns of Buskerud county. He served through one term, which was interrupted by the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. Near the end of the occupation, he was incarcerated in Grini concentration camp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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