Nikolaus Gjelsvik (11 April 1866 –14 November 1938) was a Norwegian jurist and law professor. He was born at

Vevring Vevring is a former municipality in the old Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964. It encompassed the land surrounding the western part of the Førdefjorden on both the north and sou ...

Sunnfjord Sunnfjord ( en, the southern fjord - in contrast to Nordfjord) is a traditional district in Western Norway located in Vestland county. It includes the municipalities of Askvoll, Fjaler, the southernmost parts of Kinn, Sunnfjord, and the souther ...

. He served as a professor at the University of Kristiania (now University of Oslo) from 1906. Among his works are the books ''Innleiding i rettsstudiet'' from 1912, ''Lærebok i folkerett'' from 1915, and ''Lærebok i millomfolkeleg privatrett'' from 1918. He was a proponent for the

Nynorsk language Nynorsk () () is one of the two written standards of the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. From 12 May 1885, it became the state-sanctioned version of Ivar Aasen's standard Norwegian language ( no, Landsmål) parallel to the Dano-Nor ...

, took part in organisational work, and had leading positions in the publishing house

Det Norske Samlaget Det Norske Samlaget is a Norwegian publishing house founded on 24 March 1868 with the aim to promote and publish books in Landsmål, now known as Nynorsk. ''Det Norske Samlaget'' is now divided into two institutions: a literature organization, ''L ...

and in the societies

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and

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. Marshals at his funeral were

Nicolai Rygg Nicolai Theodorius Nilssen Rygg (29 February 1872 – 27 September 1957) was a Norwegian economist and Governor of the Central Bank of Norway. Biography He was born in Stavanger as a son of shoemaker Ole Nilssen Rygg (1842–1908) and Ane S ...

and

Ferdinand Schjelderup Ferdinand Schjelderup (8 March 1886 – 30 July 1955) was a Norwegian mountaineer, Supreme Court Justice and resistance member during the German occupation of Norway. Personal life He was born in Kristiania as the son of Thorleif Frederik Schj ...

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1866 births 1938 deaths People from Askvoll Academic staff of the University of Oslo Norwegian jurists Noregs Mållag Nynorsk-language writers People from Sunnfjord {{Norway-academic-bio-stub