Selmer (surname)
Selmer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Christian August Selmer (1816–1889), Norwegian lawyer, magistrate and politician * Elisabeth Schweigaard Selmer (1923–2009), Norwegian judge and politician * Ernst Sejersted Selmer (1920–2006), Norwegian mathematician * Ernst W. Selmer (1890–1971), Norwegian philologist and phonetician * Knut Selmer (1924–2009), Norwegian legal scholar * Odd Selmer (born 1930), Norwegian journalist, novelist and playwright See also * Ågot Gjems Selmer Ågot Gjems Selmer, also Ågot Gjems-Selmer, (27 October 1857 – 25 September 1926) was a Norwegian actress, writer, and lecturer. Biography Gjems-Selmer was born into a wealthy family in Kongsvinger, Norway. She was the eldest of nine sibling ...

Christian August Selmer
Christian August Selmer (16 November 1816 – 1 September 1889) was a Norwegian lawyer and a magistrate. He served as a member of the Norwegian Parliament, Minister of Defense and Minister of Justice. He was the 2nd prime minister of Norway in Christiana between 1880 and 1884. Background Selmer was born at Fredrikshald in Østfold, Norway and grew up in Halden. He was the son of Johan Christian Selmer (1783-1830) and Johanne Ditlevine Michea Vibe (1788-1879). Selmer studied law at the University of Christiania from 1837, achieved his legal degree in 1842. In 1842, he was magistrate in Sør-Hedmark. In 1848, he was appointed law clerk in the office of attorney P.A. Midelfart in Drammen. In 1850, he took over the firm and developed an extensive legal practice. He served as a stipendiary magistrate in Drammen from 1862 until 1874. In 1848 he married Anna Sylvia Leganger (1825–1896). Career Selmer served as deputy to Parliament for Drammen from 1871 until 1873 and pe ...
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Elisabeth Schweigaard Selmer
Elisabeth Schweigaard Selmer (born Ragnhild Elisabeth Schweigaard, 18 October 1923 – 18 June 2009) was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Conservative Party. During the Nazi occupation of Norway, Elisabeth Schweigaard worked with the Norwegian resistance movement "Hjemmefronten" against the Nazi collaborationist Quisling regime. Elisabeth was then just a teenager. Personal life She was born in Kristiania to Niels Anker Stang Schweigaard (1884–1955) and his wife Betty Reimers (1886–1968). She had two older sisters, and was a great-granddaughter of Tellef Dahll SchweigaardGenealogy
and great-granduncle of . Born as Ragnhild Elisabeth Schweigaard, she married law pro ...
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Ernst Sejersted Selmer
Ernst Sejersted Selmer (11 February 1920 – 8 November 2006) was a Norwegian mathematician, who worked in number theory, as well as a cryptologist. The Selmer group of an Abelian variety is named after him. His primary contributions to mathematics reside within the field of diophantine equations. He started working as a cryptologist during the Second World War; due to his work, Norway became a NATO superpower in the field of encryption. Biography Early life Ernest S. Selmer was born in Oslo in the family of Professor Ernst W. Selmer and Ella Selmer (born Sejersted). He was the brother of Knut S. Selmer who married with Elisabeth Schweigaard, as well as first cousin of Francis Sejersted. Already early in school, Selmer demonstrated mathematical talent. When attending Stabekk high school he was an editor of the school's magazine ''Tall og tanker'' (numbers and thoughts). In 1938, he won Crown Prince Olav's Mathematics Prize for high school graduates. From 1942–1943, he ...
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Ernst W
Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Ernest. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst" * Anton Ernst (1975-) South African Film Producer * Alice Henson Ernst (1880-1980), American writer and historian * Britta Ernst (born 1961), German politician * Cornelia Ernst, German politician * Edzard Ernst, German-British Professor of Complementary Medicine * Emil Ernst, astronomer * Ernie Ernst (1924/25–2013), former District Judge in Walker County, Texas * Eugen Ernst (1864–1954), German politician * Fabian Ernst, German soccer player * Gustav Ernst, Austrian writer * Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Moravian violinist and composer * Jim Ernst, Canadian politician * Jimmy Ernst, American painter, son of Max Ernst * Joni Ernst, U.S. Senator from Iowa * K.S. Ernst, American visual poet * Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, German writer (1866–1933) * Ken Ernst, U.S. ...
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Knut Selmer
Knut Sejersted Selmer (7 November 1924 – 25 March 2009) was a Norwegian legal scholar. He was born in Aker as a son of professor Ernst Westerlund Selmer (1890–1971) and Ella Sejersted (1895–1968), and was the brother of Ernst Sejersted Selmer. He was a grandnephew of Johan Selmer and Jens Selmer and a first cousin of Francis Sejersted. He finished his secondary education at the Haagaas School in 1944 and graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1949. He was a deputy judge in Nord-Troms and Fredrikstad between 1949 and 1952. In January 1950 he married Elisabeth Schweigaard. He was a research fellow at the University of Oslo from 1953 to 1959, took the dr.juris degree in 1958 on the thesis ''The Survival of General Average. A Necessity or an Anachronism?'', and also had an average adjuster exam from 1954. He was appointed as a professor of insurance law at the University of Oslo in 1959, and remained here until 1989. He served as dean from 1970 to 1973. His fields in addit ...
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Odd Selmer
Odd Selmer (born 7 February 1930) is a Norwegian journalist, novelist, crime fiction writer and playwright. In 1977 he wrote a historical novel about the eccentric "Lady" Barbara Arbuthnott. His audio plays have been translated into fifteen languages. He was awarded the Ibsen Prize The Norwegian Ibsen Award (Norwegian: ) is awarded to promote Norwegian drama and is awarded only to playwrights. History The prize is awarded by Skien municipality, the hometown of author and playwright Henrik Ibsen, and has been awarded every ... in 1988 for the audio play series ''På egne ben''. References 1930 births People from Trondheim Norwegian journalists 20th-century Norwegian novelists 21st-century Norwegian novelists Norwegian crime fiction writers Norwegian dramatists and playwrights Living people {{Norway-writer-stub ...
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