Olaf Stang (10 June 1871 – 14 November 1956) was a Norwegian engineer. He was born in

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(now Oslo), Norway. He was a son of county treasurer Wilhelm Baltazar Stang (1838–1916) and Petra Sørensen. In 1898 he married Olavia Stang from

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. He was a second cousin of Jørgen Breder Stang and Ole A. Stang,

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of the latter's sons Axel Heiberg Stang and

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, third cousin of Emil and

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, and one of his aunts married

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. He

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his secondary education in 1889 and graduated from the Royal School of Drawing in 1894. He was hired in the

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in the same year. From 1920 to 1939 he was chief engineer and head of bridge construction. He is best known for his design of

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s including

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(''Fyksesundbrua'') which spans the Fyksesund fjord on the road between the villages of Øystese and Ålvik in the municipality of Kvam in

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, Norway. He was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1939.

References

1871 births 1956 deaths Engineers from Oslo Bridge engineers

Olaf Olaf or Olav (, , or British ; Old Norse: ''Áleifr'', ''Ólafr'', ''Óleifr'', ''Anleifr'') is a Scandinavian and German given name. It is presumably of Proto-Norse origin, reconstructed as ''*Anu-laibaz'', from ''anu'' "ancestor, grand-father" a ...

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