The Haagaas School ( no, Haagaas Artiumskursus, informally also ''Haagaas skole'', ''Haagaas private gymnas'' or ''Haagaas' studentfabrikk''), or simply Haagaas, was a

private Private or privates may refer to: Music * " In Private", by Dusty Springfield from the 1990 album ''Reputation'' * Private (band), a Denmark-based band * "Private" (Ryōko Hirosue song), from the 1999 album ''Private'', written and also recorde ...

gymnasium in Oslo, that existed from 1915 to 1955. It was located in Niels Juels gate 52 at Frogner, in the same building as Frogner School. The school's founder, owner and headmaster until his retirement in 1946 was

Theodor Haagaas Theodor Christian Petersen Haagaas (15 June 1873, Tistedalen – 25 December 1961, Oslo) was a Norwegian mathematician and private school owner. He was a co-owner of Frogner School and Nissen's Girls' School (1913–1918) and founder, owner ...

. The school was a so-called "student factory" (''studentfabrikk''), offering a fast track to the examen artium (university entrance exam), in the tradition of the Heltberg School of the 19th century.

Mosse Jørgensen Mosse Jørgensen (3 January 1921 – 30 June 2009) was a Norwegian school principal and non-fiction writer. She is especially remembered as a co-founder and the first principal of a reformed secondary school in Oslo in 1967, . She published ...

:
Haagaas Artiumskursus
" in ''Skoler jeg møtte'', Pedagogisk psykologisk forlag, 1997, pp. 42–51. As of 1946, the school had 20 teachers, five classes and 127 students, and was entirely funded by tuition.''Skolestatistikk 1945–46'', pp. 74–75, Norges offisielle statistikk X. 189, Ministry of Education, 1949

Alumni

* Finn Alnæs *

Reidar Ditlev Danielsen Reidar Ditlev Danielsen (1916 – 2000) was a Norwegian civil servant. He was born in Oslo, and held the siv.ing. degree in engineering. He was an assistant secretary in the Ministry of Industry and Craft from 1946 to 1953, and was director ...

* Henry Gleditsch *

* Leif B. Lillegaard *

Knut Selmer Knut Sejersted Selmer (7 November 1924 – 25 March 2009) was a Norwegian legal scholar. He was born in Aker as a son of professor Ernst Westerlund Selmer (1890–1971) and Ella Sejersted (1895–1968), and was the brother of Ernst Sejersted Sel ...

Bernhard Stokke Bernhard Stokke (24 September 1896 – 17 January 1979) was a Norwegian educationalist, textbook writer and children's writer. Personal life Stokke was born in Kvikne, the son of teacher Thomas Stokke and Beret Brobak Tronsaune. He married Johanna ...

* Leif Tronstad

References

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