Christian August Manthey Lange (28 April 1907 – 6 August 1970) was a Norwegian educator, non-fiction writer and cultural

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Personal life

Lange was born in

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, the son of politician and Nobel Laureate

Christian Lous Lange Christian Lous Lange (17 September 1869 – 11 December 1938) was a Norwegian historian, teacher, and political scientist. He was one of the world's foremost exponents of the theory and practice of internationalism. Early life and education He ...

(1869–1938) and his wife Bertha Manthey (1867–1947). He was a brother of politician and

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Halvard Lange Halvard Manthey Lange (16 September 1902 – 19 May 1970) was a Norwegian politician and diplomat, who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1946-1963 and again from 1963-1965. He was also the longest serving Foreign Minister to date, ha ...

, and of Parliament of Norway member

Carl Viggo Manthey Lange Carl Viggo Manthey Lange (9 April 1904 – 31 May 1999) was a Norwegian physician and politician for the Labour Party. He was born in Kristiania as a son of Christian Lous Lange (1869–1938) and Bertha Manthey (1867–1947), and brother of A ...

. He spent part of his childhood in

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, where his father had a position as secretary-general of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

Career

Lange finished his secondary education in 1924, enrolled subsequently at the

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where he studied history, and graduated as cand.philol. in 1933. He worked as a teacher in Oslo from 1934. In 1939 he issued the history textbook ''6000 år. Verdenshistorie for den høgre skolen'', in cooperation with

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World War II

Following the outbreak of

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he participated in resistance work. He was arrested in June 1941 and held at

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until October 1941, at

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from October 1941 to April 1943, and at the

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until the end of World War II. He issued the book ''3 fra Sachsenhausen'' in 1945, together with Carl Johan Frederik Jakhelln and

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, where he wrote the article "Ved livets grense" about Norwegian prisoners in Sachsenhausen. In 1946 and 1947 the two-volume book ''Griniboken'' was issued, edited by Lange and Johan Schreiner, with contributions from several of the prisoners at Grini. Lange's contribution is the chapter "Gamle Grini", where he gives an overview of the camp in the period he spent at Grini.

Post war

Lange was cultural

at the Norwegian embassy in

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from 1946 to 1948. From 1948 he worked as a teacher at ''Oslo offentlige lærerskole'', and from 1953 he was head of ''Hamar lærerskole''. He headed ''Statens lærerskoleklasser i Oslo'' from 1958. From 1962 he lectured at the

. He died in 1970, by drowning in the lake Bogstadvannet in Oslo.

References

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