Alf Collett (8 August 1844 – 12 June 1919) was a Norwegian writer and historian.Collett family

Biography

Alf Collett was born at

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, Norway. He was the second son of professor

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(1813-1851) and

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(1813-1895). His maternal uncles included Oscar and

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, and his paternal uncles included Peter Severin Steenstrup. He had one older brother

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, a notable zoologist, and two younger brothers. He married Mathilda Sophie Kallevig (1845-1915), but they did not have any children. He attended Oslo Cathedral School. He became

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in 1865. From 1867 he was employed in the Ministry of Marine and Post Affairs and became bureau chief in 1880. In 1885, he was transferred to the Ministry of Defense and from 1899 to 1919 he was director general of the Naval Administration. He was made a knight 1st Grade of the Order of Saint Olav. He died during 1919 at Kristiania and was buried at Vår Frelsers gravlund He published many historical and

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works,List of publications in BIBSYS
/ref> the most important being ''En gammel Christiania-slægt'' (1883) and ''Gamle Christiania-Billeder'' (1893).

Selected works

*''Familien Collett'', 1872 *''Familien Elieson'', 1881 *''Fladeby'', 1881 *''Raadmand Peder Pedersen Müllers Efterkommere'', 1881 *''Gamle Christiania-Billeder'', 1893 *''Camilla Colletts livs historie belyst ved hendes breve og dagbøker'', 1911 *''En gammel Christiania-Slægt'', 1883

References

External links

The family tree of Alf Collett on Geni.com
1844 births 1919 deaths People from Eidsvoll People educated at Oslo Cathedral School Norwegian jurists 19th-century Norwegian historians Norwegian genealogists Norwegian non-fiction writers Alf Norwegian people of English descent Order of Saint Olav Burials at the Cemetery of Our Saviour {{Norway-writer-stub