Aslak Torjusson (4 March 1891 – 26 April 1973) was a Norwegian educator. He was born in Rauland. He took teacher's education in Holmestrand in 1912, finished secondary education in 1918 and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the cand.philol. degree in 1923. While doing so he was a primary school teacher from 1912 to 1920 and then a teacher at Telemark Folk High School for four years. From 1927 to 1936 he was the secretary of Noregs Mållag. He was then the headmaster of Buskerud Folk High School from 1936 to 1952 and lecturer at Sagene Teachers' College from 1952 to 1961. He was also a board member of the

Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK, an abbreviation of the Norwegian ''Norsk Rikskringkasting AS'', generally expressed in English as the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and the largest ...

from 1933 to 1947. He issued the book ''Frøydis Haavardsholm og norsk leid i dekorativ kunst'' in 1933. He did not manage to complete his standard work about Norwegian folk high schools—''Den norske folkehøgskulen. Opphav og grunnlag''—within his lifespan, but it was finished by

Helge Dahl Helge Dahl (26 May 1921 – 16 December 2004) was a Norwegian educationalist. He was born in Rjukan as the son of labourers. He finished his secondary education in his hometown in 1940 and graduated with the cand.philol. degree in 1946 at the U ...

in 1977. He died in April 1973. His daughter Anne Torjusson Diesen was assisting director of television in the

in the 1990s, and an experienced journalist covering the Norwegian Royal Court. She was married to Erik Diesen.

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1891 births 1973 deaths People from Vinje University of Oslo alumni Heads of schools in Norway Norwegian educationalists Noregs Mållag Nynorsk-language writers {{Norway-academic-bio-stub