Hamar katedralskole ( en, Hamar Cathedral School) is an

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Hamar Hamar is a List of cities in Norway, town in Hamar Municipality in Innlandet Counties of Norway, county, Norway. Hamar is the administrative centre of Hamar Municipality. It is located in the Districts of Norway, traditional region of Hedmarken. ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

History

Founded in 1153 as Schola cathedralis hamarensis, it is the second oldest school in Norway together with

Bergen katedralskole 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 ...

and

Oslo katedralskole Schola Osloensis, known in Norwegian as Oslo Katedralskole (''Oslo Cathedral School'') and more commonly as "Katta",

, which were founded the same year, one year after the founding of

Trondheim katedralskole Trondheim Cathedral School ( no, Trondheim katedralskole, Latin: ''Schola Cathedralis Nidrosiensis'') is an upper secondary school located next to the Nidaros Cathedral in the center of Trondheim, Norway. History There is great dispute regarding ...

. Hamar Cathedral School was founded by Cardinal Nicolas Breakspear, later to become Pope Adrian IV (c. 1100 – 1159). With the Protestant Reformation, Hamar Diocese was closed and in 1602 and the school was merged with Oslo Cathedral School. The school remained closed until 1876, when it was reopened under the name ''Hamar offentlige skole for høyere allmenndannelse''. The old name was reintroduced in 1936. The current headmaster is Stig Johannessen.

Notable alumni

* Nils Collett Vogt (1864–1937), writer * Per Imerslund (1912–1943), writer *

Sigurd Evensmo Sigurd Evensmo (14 February 1912 – 17 October 1978) was a Norwegian author and journalist.

(1912–1978), writer *

Ivar Giæver Ivar Giaever ( no, Giæver, ; born April 5, 1929) is a Norwegian-American engineer and physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson "for their discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in solids". Gi ...

(1929–),

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and

Nobel Prize in Physics ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , alt = A golden medallion with an embossed image of a bearded man facing left in profile. To the left of the man is the text "ALFR•" then "NOBEL", and on the right, the text (smaller) "NAT•" then " ...

laureate *

Knut Faldbakken Knut Faldbakken (born 31 August 1941, in Hamar) is a Norwegian novelist. He studied psychology at Oslo University, and then worked as a journalist. Faldbakken visited a number of countries, working variously as a bookkeeper, sailor, and factor ...

(1941–), writer *

Dag Fornæss Dag Fornæss (born 30 June 1948) is a former speed skater from Norway who won the Norwegian, European, and World Allround Championships in 1969. He was born in Hamar. Biography Representing Hamar Idrettslag (Hamar Sports Club), Fornæss had his ...

(1948–) speed skater * John Erik Fornæss (1946–) mathematician, Princeton University * Morten Andreas Meyer (1959–), politician *

Jan Åge Fjørtoft Jan Åge Fjørtoft (born 10 January 1967) is a Norwegian former professional footballer. A powerful centre forward with goalscoring ability, he played professionally in Norway, Austria, England and Germany. He appeared in 71 international matches ...

(1967–), football player *

Matias Faldbakken Matias Faldbakken (born 1973 in Hobro, Denmark) is a Norwegian artist and writer. Faldbakken studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen and the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. He is the son of the author Knut Faldbakken, father of ...

(1973–), writer and artist *

Anette Trettebergstuen Anette Trettebergstuen (born 25 May 1981) is a Norwegian politician representing the Labour Party, who has served as Minister of Culture and Equality in Støre's Cabinet since 2021. She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Hedmark in 2 ...

(1981–), politician * Anders Baasmo Christiansen (1976-), actor *

Lasse Sætre Lasse Sætre (born 10 March 1974) is a former speed skater from Norway, who for several years was among the world's best long distance skaters. Sætre who grew up in Nord-Odal competed in the 1998, 2002 and 2006 Olympics, and won a 10,000-m bro ...

(1974-), speed skater

Gallery

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References

External links

School website
Secondary schools in Norway Cathedral schools Educational institutions established in the 12th century Education in Hamar Hedmark County Municipality {{Norway-school-stub