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Magnhild
Magnhild is a Norwegian female given name. People with that name include: *Magnhild of Fulltofta (died before 1228), Danish Roman Catholic local saint * Magnhild Eia (born 1960), Norwegian politician *Magnhild Haalke (1885–1984), Norwegian novelist * Magnhild Hagelia (1904–1996), Norwegian politician * Magnhild Holmberg (1943–2013), Norwegian politician *Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa (born 1948), Norwegian politician *Magnhild Lien Magnhild Lien is a Norwegian mathematician specializing in knot theory. She is a professor emeritus of mathematics at California State University, Northridge, and the former executive director of the Association for Women in Mathematics. Education ..., Norwegian mathematician * Magnhild Folkvord (born 1945), Norwegian journalist and biographer {{given name Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnhild Haalke
Magnhild Haalke (12 August 1885 – 18 October 1984) was a Norwegian novelist.Erik Bjerck Hagen"Magnhild Haalke" Store norske leksikon /ref> Biography Magnhild Camilla Kvaale was born on Vikna, an island off the Namdalen coast in Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. She was the second of ten children born to Knut Kvaale (1852–1942) and Kaja Augusta Wiig (1863–1948). She worked as a teacher for 30 years in Sør-Odal in Hedmark. She made her literary debut in 1935 with the novel ''Allis sønn''. Her deep psychological insight and great environmental descriptions ensured her a lasting place in Norwegian literature. Eventually she wrote nearly 30 books. Haalke made use of strong, colorful language and lush figures of speech. Her novels often focused on adult insensitive treatment of defenseless youth. The role of the mother in childhood development was a frequent subject. In several books she wrote of values relating to childhood environment and family traditions. Her trilogy ''Åkfest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnhild Hagelia
Magnhild Hagelia (6 May 1904 – 4 July 1996) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. Biography Hagelia was born at Gjerstad in Aust-Agder, Norway. She was the eldest of eight children born to Peder Jakobsen Hagelia (1874–1941) and Karen Tomine Pedersdatter Gryting (1881–1956). She was a student at Otto Treider's school in Oslo in 1933–34. She was trained in accounting and served for six years as business manager in Gjerstad supply council and then municipal councilor in Gjerstad 1945–47. She was added to the County Audit Office in Aust-Agder from 1948 until she retired in 1969. Hagelia held positions in local politics in the municipalities Fjære (1947–51), Øyestad (1956–59) and Grimstad (1971). She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Aust-Agder Aust-Agder (, en, "East Agder") was a county (''fylke'') in Norway until 1 January 2020, when it was merged with Vest-Agder to form Agder county. In 2002, there were 102,945 inhabitants, which was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnhild Folkvord
Magnhild Folkvord (born 27 November 1945) is a Norwegian journalist and biographer. Background Folkvord is from Frol and is an older sister of Erling Folkvord. She moved to Oslo to take a cand.mag. degree at the University of Oslo, but as a member of the Workers' Communist Party she dropped out of the master's studies to self-proletarize. Work Folkvord was an ironworker at Jøtul for fourteen years. After resigning she eventually became a journalist in the former Workers' Communist Party newspaper ''Klassekampen'' in 1999. She worked there until 2015 and wrote political books. She also wrote a biography on Fredrikke Marie Qvam in 2013, leading to her resigning from the newspaper and writing more biographies, on Betzy Kjelsberg in 2015 and Magnhild Haalke Magnhild Haalke (12 August 1885 – 18 October 1984) was a Norwegian novelist.Erik Bjerck Hagen"Magnhild Haalke" Store norske leksikon /ref> Biography Magnhild Camilla Kvaale was born on Vikna, an island off the Namdalen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa
Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa (born 12 November 1948 in Fister, Norway) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. Kleppa is educated as a teacher at Kristiansand Teacher Training College in 1970. She worked as a teacher from 1967 to 1992. She was a member of the Hjelmeland municipal council during the 1980s and a member of the Norwegian Parliament from 1993 until 2013. She then served as Governor of Rogaland County from 2013-2019. Political career She was elected to the Parliament of Norway for the first time in 1993, and has been reelected four times, lastly in 2009. She did not seek reelection in the 2013 Norwegian parliamentary election. Her political advisor is fellow Centre Party member Sigrid Brattabø Handegard Sigrid Brattabø Handegard (born 27 December 1963) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. Early life Handegard was educated at Rogne Upper Secondary School, specialising in nursing auxiliary skills. She worked as a nursing auxiliary i .... S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnhild Lien
Magnhild Lien is a Norwegian mathematician specializing in knot theory. She is a professor emeritus of mathematics at California State University, Northridge, and the former executive director of the Association for Women in Mathematics. Education and career Lien was born in Arendal, a town on the southern Norwegian island of Tromøya, where she grew up as the youngest of six children and the only girl in her family. She earned a bachelor's degree from McGill University in 1979, and completed her Ph.D. in 1984 from the University of Iowa The University of Iowa (UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a public university, public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and largest university in the state. The University of Iowa is org .... Her dissertation, ''Construction of High Dimensional Knot Groups from Classical Knot Groups'', was supervised by Jonathan Kalman Simon. She joined the faculty at California State University, Northr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnhild Of Fulltofta
Magnhild of Fulltofta (died before 1228), is a Danish Roman Catholic local saint. She is one of the three female saints of Scania alongside Sissela of Borrby and Tora of Torekov, but she is the only one of them documented as an actual historical person. Magnhild was described as a pious woman from Benarp who nursed the sick, and educated and provided for children. She was murdered by her daughter-in-law with an arrow. When her corpse was brought from Fulltofta home to Benarp, the coffin-carriers rested at Hästäng. There, a well appeared where they put down her coffin. After this, a chapel was erected by the well, and Magnhild, though never canonized by the pope, became the object of veneration. The veneration of Magnhild is first mentioned in 1228. By then it was apparently a recent phenomenon, and she reportedly lived in the early 13th-century. In 1383, her remains were moved to Lund Cathedral. See also * Margrethe of Roskilde Margrethe of Roskilde, also called ''Margreth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnhild Holmberg
Magnhild Holmberg (12 March 1943 – 27 August 2013) was a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party. She served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Telemark during the terms 1993–1997 and 2005–2009. In total she met during 61 days of parliamentary session. She was also a Skien Skien () is a city and municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county in Norway. In modern times it is regarded as part of the traditional region of Grenland, although historically it belonged to Grenmar/Skiensfjorden, while Grenland referred the ... local politician. She died in August 2013 after a long battle with cancer. References 1943 births 2013 deaths Politicians from Skien Progress Party (Norway) politicians Deputy members of the Storting Women members of the Storting Deaths from cancer in Norway {{Norway-politician-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnhild Eia
Magnhild Rita Eia (born 15 January 1960) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. She served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Rogaland during the term 1993–1997, 1997–2001, 2001–2005 and 2005–2009. From 2005 to 2007, during the second cabinet Stoltenberg, she was a political advisor in the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development. On the local level, she has been deputy mayor of Lund Lund (, , ) is a city in the southern Swedish provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, across the Øresund, Öresund strait from Copenhagen. The town had 91,940 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 121,510 . It is the seat of Lund Municipali .... References * 1960 births Living people Deputy members of the Storting Centre Party (Norway) politicians Rogaland politicians People from Lund, Norway {{Norway-politician-1960s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |