Ingelise Udjus (9 September 1920 – 5 December 2001) was a

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resistance member, educator and civil servant.

Biography

Udjus was born in

Drammen Drammen () is a city and municipality in Viken (county), Viken, Norway. The port and river city of Drammen is centrally located in the south-eastern and most populated part of Norway. Drammen municipality also includes smaller towns and village ...

and took the Candidate of Arts and Letters degree in 1946, later the pedagogical seminary in 1950. During

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, she was active in

Milorg Milorg (abbreviation of militær organisasjon – military organization) was the main Norwegian resistance movement during World War II. Resistance work included intelligence gathering, sabotage, supply-missions, raids, espionage, transport of ...

from 1941 to 1944, and worked for the

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mission in

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

from 1944 to 1945. Udjus worked as secretary-general in the People's University from 1959 to 1965, head of information at the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

from 1965 to 1979, and managing director of the Norwegian Museum Council between 1980 and 1990. Udjus was also a board member of the International Congress of University Adult Education, sat on the Council for Adult Education (1966–1976), the

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Commission from 1962 to 1976, the Norwegian-Belgian Cultural Commission and the French-Norwegian Cultural Committee. She was decorated as a Chevalier of the

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. She resided at

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from 1957, and died in 2001 at the

Bærum Hospital Bærum () is a list of municipalities of Norway, municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Norway that forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a population of 128,760 (2 ...

References

1920 births 2001 deaths People from Drammen Norwegian resistance members Female resistance members of World War II Norwegian expatriates in Sweden Norwegian educators Directors of government agencies of Norway 20th-century Norwegian educators {{Norway-gov-bio-stub