Emanuel Meyer Mohn (15 February 1842 – 26 April 1891) was a Norwegian educator, mountain climber and illustrator. He was known for writing about and illustrating mountains in Norway.

Biography

He was born in

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to Albert Henrik Mohn (1811–1894) and Ida Neumann (1814–1864). He was a brother of

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and

Jakob Mohn Jakob Neumann Mohn (31 May 1838 – 16 February 1882) was a Norway, Norwegian statistician. Personal life He was born in Bergen as a son of Albert Henrik Mohn (1811–1894) and Ida Neumann (1814–1864). Originally named Jacob, he changed the spel ...

, and on the maternal side he was a grandson of bishop

Jacob Neumann Jacob Neumann (13 July 1772 – 25 January 1848) was a Norwegian bishop. Personal life He was born in Strømsø as a son of Hans Neumann (1745–1789) and Annechen Johanne Blom (1754–1773), and a grandson of Jakob Hansen Neumann. He was als ...

. He was a grand-uncle of

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and Albert Henrik Mohn, and an uncle-in-law of Nils Yngvar Ustvedt. He enrolled in higher education during 1864 at the University of Christiania and graduated with the

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degree in 1869. He worked as a school teacher in Bergen,

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, Christiania and Aalesund before holding his final job at

Bergen Cathedral School Bergen Cathedral School (Norwegian: ''Bergen Katedralskole'', Latin: ''Schola Cathedralis Bergensis'', formerly known as Bergens lærdeskole and Bergen latinskole and colloquially known as Katten) is an upper secondary school in Bergen, Norway. Loc ...

from 1884 to 1889. He is best known as a contributor to the popularity of outdoors life in Norway, specifically

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. He wrote in the yearbook of the

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between 1871 and his death, and was also an illustrator. He ascended several mountains, but one of the downpoints came when he, trekking together with

William Cecil Slingsby William Cecil Slingsby (1849–1929) was an English mountain climber and alpine explorer from Carleton, North Yorkshire. Born in Bell Busk, near Gargrave, Yorkshire, Slingsby first visited Norway in 1872 and fell in love with the country. He h ...

, did not manage to first ascend the

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. He does hold co-credit for the first ascent of other mountains, such as

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. Mohn also travelled to other countries, partly in order to improve his health. He still struggled, however, with both physical and mental problems. He committed

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by drowning in April 1891 in

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References

1842 births 1891 deaths Schoolteachers from Bergen Norwegian mountain climbers Norwegian non-fiction writers Norwegian illustrators Sportspeople from Bergen Suicides by drowning Suicides in Norway 19th-century Norwegian writers University of Oslo alumni Writers from Bergen 1890s suicides {{Norway-writer-stub