Conrad Langaard (6 August 1890 – 24 December 1950) was a Norwegian
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
player.
He was born in
Kristiania
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...
as a son of merchant and factory owner Rasmus Agerup Langaard (1860–1908) and his wife Laura Nannestad Holmboe (b. 1869). His paternal grandfather was
Conrad Langaard
Conrad Christian Parnemann Langaard (18 November 1823 – 11 August 1897) was a Norwegian businessman. He was the founder of the tobacco company, Conrad Langaard A/S.
Biography
Langaard was born at Lillesand in Aust-Agder, Norway as a son o ...
(1823–1897), founder of the company
of the same name. As such he was a grandnephew of
Mads Langaard
Mads Ellef Langaard (3 May 1815 – 23 March 1891) was a Norwegian brewery owner and industrialist. He was the founder of the brewery Frydenlunds bryggeri, now a division of Ringnes.
Personal life
Langaard was born at Lillesand in Aust- ...
, and a first cousin once removed of
Christian Langaard and a second cousin of
Johan Henrik Langaard Johan
* Johan (given name)
* ''Johan'' (film), a 1921 Swedish film directed by Mauritz Stiller
* Johan (band), a Dutch pop-group
** ''Johan'' (album), a 1996 album by the group
* Johan Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada
* Jo-Han, a manu ...
.
Genealogical entry
for Rasmus Agerup Langaard
He represented the club Oslo TK
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of i ...
. He participated at the Summer Olympics in 1912
Events January
* January 1 – The Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6 ...
, 1920
Events January
* January 1
** Polish–Soviet War in 1920: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20.
** Kauniainen, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its own ma ...
and 1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...
. In 1912 he placed fifth in doubles, and in 1920 he placed fifth in doubles together with Jack Nielsen.[
]
References
1890 births
1950 deaths
Tennis players from Oslo
Norwegian male tennis players
Olympic tennis players for Norway
Tennis players at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Tennis players at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Tennis players at the 1924 Summer Olympics
20th-century Norwegian people
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