Andreas Olsen Hølaas (28 July 1832 – 17 July 1907) was a Norwegian civil servant, auditor and politician for the Liberal Party. He was born in

Leksvik Leksvik is a former municipality in the old Nord-Trøndelag county (now in Trøndelag county), Norway. The administrative center of the municipality was the village of Leksvik. Other villages in Leksvik included Vanvikan, Seter, and Dalbygda. ...

as a son of farmers. He

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secondary education as a private candidate in 1862, and took the

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degree in 1866. He worked as a clerk in the

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until he was hired in the

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in 1875. From 1881 to 1888 he was one of the Auditors-General. He was selected by the

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, where he had contacts, among others to Johan Sverdrup, because of his involvement since 1879 in the Liberal Party. He was also involved in Kristiania Arbeidersamfund, and edited their publications ''Samfundet'' and ''Demokraten''. He was also a Landsmål/

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proponent. From 1888 to 1907 he was the

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Setesdalen Setesdal (; older name: Sætersdal) is a valley and a traditional district in Agder County in southern Norway. It consists of the municipalities of Bykle, Valle, Bygland, Iveland, and Evje og Hornnes. The Otra river flows through the valley o ...

. Hølaas was married to Jocumine Oline Jonasdatter Støre (1833–1881) from September 1968 to her death. From April 1887 he was married to Anna Christine Bakke (1845–1920). He was the paternal great-grandfather of

Odd Hølaas Oddleiv Sigurd Bang Hølaas (27 March 1898 – 2 March 1968) was a Norwegian journalist and writer. He won the Riksmål Society Literature Prize in 1964. He was born in Tveit as a son of physician Oddleiv Magne Hølaas (1869–1915) and Aa ...

. He died in July 1907 in

Evje Evje is a former municipality in the old Aust-Agder county in Norway. The municipality existed from 1877 until 1960. It was located in what is now the eastern part of the present-day municipality of Evje og Hornnes in the Setesdal valley of Ag ...

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1832 births 1907 deaths People from Leksvik Norwegian jurists Norwegian civil servants Norwegian auditors Liberal Party (Norway) politicians Norwegian magazine editors {{Norway-politician-1830s-stub