Kristiansand Teacher Training College (''Kristiansand Lærerhøgskole'') was established as Holt Seminary at

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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 the ...

in 1839. The first teachers' college was located at the parsonage at Holt Church. While located in Holt, the seminary graduated 445 students, among whom were

Jørgen Løvland Jørgen Gunnarsson Løvland (3 February 1848 – 21 August 1922) was a Norwegian educator and civil servant of the Liberal Party who served as the 10th prime minister of Norway from 1907 to 1908. Background Løvland was born at Lauvland in Evj ...

(1848 –1922) during 1865 and

Arne Garborg Arne Garborg (born Aadne Eivindsson Garborg) (25 January 1851 – 14 January 1924) was a Norwegian writer. Garborg championed the use of Landsmål (now known as Nynorsk, or New Norwegian), as a literary language; he translated the Odyssey into ...

(1851–1924) from 1868 to 1870. The seminary moved to

Kristiansand Kristiansand is a seaside resort city and municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 112,000 as of January 2020, following the incorporati ...

in 1877, and was renamed Kristiansand Teachers' College in 1902. The school was named Kristiansand Teacher Training College in 1977. Southern kindergarten teacher education, established in 1963, was incorporated into the teachers' academy in 1973. In 1994, Kristiansand Lærerhøgskole became part of the

University of Agder The University of Agder ( no, Universitetet i Agder), formerly known as Agder College and Agder University College, is a public university with campuses in Kristiansand and Grimstad, Norway. The institution was established as a university co ...

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