Anders Kirkhusmo (17 December 1865 – 12 December 1949) was a Norwegian educator and union representative.
Anders Kirkhusmo was born at
Ålen
Ålen is a former municipality in the old Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The former municipality existed from 1855 until 1972. It encompassed the southeastern half of what is now the municipality of Holtålen in Trøndelag county. The administ ...
, in
Sør-Trøndelag
Sør-Trøndelag () was a county comprising the southern portion of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Nord-Trøndelag county as well as the counties of Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, and Hedmark. To the west is the No ...
, Norway. He was a teacher at
Klæbu
Klæbu is a former municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 2020 when it was incorporated into the neighboring Trondheim Municipality. It was located in the southern part of the Trondheim Region, a ...
Seminar 1885-1887. He worked in
Røros from 1889 until 1892, then taught in elementary school in
Tolga,
Brekken
Brekken or Brekkebygd ( sma, Prahke) is a mountain village in Røros municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located at the eastern end of the lake Aursunden, just about west of the border with Sweden and about northeast of t ...
,
Os and
Nord-Odal. He was a teacher at
Elverum Seminar 1896-1902. He was a teacher at
Vaterland
Vaterland means "Fatherland" in German. It may also refer to:
*Vaterland, Norway, a neighborhood in Oslo
*The ocean liner SS ''Vaterland'', later known as SS ''Leviathan''
*''Liechtensteiner Vaterland'', largest daily newspaper in Liechtenstein
...
1917 and
Majorstua from 1927 to 1935.
He was the first president of the
Young Liberals of Norway
Young Liberals of Norway ( no, Unge Venstre) (NUV) is the youth league of the Norwegian political party Venstre. Young Liberals was founded on 27 January 1909, with Anders Kirkhusmo as the first leader. The current president is Sondre Hansmark, ...
, from 1909 to 1912. He was engaged in the party's newspapers ''Dagbladet'' and ''Østlendingen''. He chaired the Norwegian Union of Teachers (''Norges Lærerlag'') for sixteen years, from 1917 to 1933. He was a member of several central committees, including chairman of two parliamentary school commissions. He published the memoirs ' in 1945.
References
External links
Anders Kirkhusmo personal archiveexistst at NTNU University Librar
Dorabiblioteket
1865 births
1949 deaths
People from Holtålen
Norwegian educators
Norwegian memoirists
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