John Oscar Egeland (14 July 1891 – 2 September 1985) was a Norwegian shipping leader. He was born in

Eshowe Eshowe is the oldest town of European settlement in Zululand, historically also known as Eziqwaqweni, Ekowe or kwaMondi. Eshowe's name is said to be inspired by the sound of wind blowing through the more than 4 km² of the indigenous Dlinza ...

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as a son of Gabriel Egeland (1862–1893) and his wife Ingeborg Konsmo. After the death of his father the family moved back to Norway. Egeland took his

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at Kristiania Cathedral School in 1910. He was hired as a secretary in the

Norwegian Shipowners' Association The Norwegian Shipowners Association () is an employers' organization and interest group for Norwegian shipping and offshore companies. The organization's primary fields are national and international industry policies, employer issues, competenc ...

in 1916. He worked for the organization in the United States from 1918 to 1919. He was married to Eva Puntervold Winther (1896–1969) from 1919, and they had the son

Erik Egeland Erik Egeland (21 July 1921 – 19 March 1996) was a Norwegian journalist and art critic. Life He was born in Bekkelaget as a son of John Oscar Egeland (1891–1985) and Eva Puntervold Winther (1896–1969). The family soon moved to Frogner. He ...

, who was the father of journalist and editor

John Olav Egeland John Olav Egeland (born 2 November 1951) is a Norwegian journalist and editor. He was born in Oslo as a son of writer Erik Egeland and grandson of John Oscar Egeland. He was a journalist in ''Orientering'' from 1973 to 1975, and was the chief edi ...

. In 1975 he got married again, to Else Endresen (1901–1978). In 1921 he was hired as leader of '' Kontoret for økonomisk opplysning'', a press office for large business organizations including the Shipowners' Association. From 1940 to 1942 he led ''Nevnden for Oversjøisk Import og Eksport'', but it was subdued by Nazi rule in World War II. After the war Egeland was assisting director of the Shipowners' Association from 1946, and acting director from 1948 to his retirement in 1954. Egeland was a board member of

Foreningen Norden Foreningen Norden (Norwegian and Danish), Föreningen Norden (Swedish), Norræna félagið (Icelandic), Norrøna Felagið (Faroese), Peqatigiiffik Nunat Avannarliit (Greenlandic) and Pohjola-Norden (Finnish), ''The Norden Associations'', sometimes ...

, and of the publications ''

Morgenbladet ''Morgenbladet'' is a Norwegian weekly, newspaper, covering politics, culture and science. History ''Morgenbladet'' was founded in 1819 by the book printer Niels Wulfsberg. The paper is the country's first daily newspaper; however, Adresseavi ...

'' and '' NÅ''. His son worked for both. Egeland wrote three books about Norwegian shipping history: ''Gjennom brott og brann'' (released 1968, about the World War II period), ''Vi skal videre'' (released 1971, about the post-war period) and ''Kongeveien'' (released 1973, about the pre-war period). He died in September 1985 in Oslo.

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1891 births 1985 deaths People from Eshowe Colony of Natal people Norwegian expatriates in the United States Norwegian businesspeople in shipping Norwegian non-fiction writers Writers from Oslo 20th-century non-fiction writers {{Norway-business-bio-stub