Peter Olaus Alvestad (21 January 1866 – 12 October 1903) was a Norwegian educator and newspaper editor. Born in

Haram ''Haram'' (; ar, حَرَام, , ) is an Arabic term meaning 'Forbidden'. This may refer to either something sacred to which access is not allowed to the people who are not in a state of purity or who are not initiated into the sacred knowle ...

, he graduated from

Asker Seminary Asker Seminary was a teachers' seminary at Bjerke near Tanum. Tanum is located in Bærum, which then was a part of Asker parish. The seminary was established in 1834 to educate teachers that conformed with the School Act of 1827. The education s ...

in 1888. He worked as a teacher at several schools, including Sagatun Folk High School, until 1895 when he founded

Voss Folk High School Voss Folk High School ( no, Voss Folkehøgskule) is a private folk school in Voss, Norway. The school is located at the village of Seim west of Vossevangen in Hordaland. It was established in 1895 by educators Olaus Alvestad Peter Olaus Alv ...

together with

Lars Eskeland Lars Eskeland (6 March 1867 – 30 September 1942) was a Norwegian educator and writer, and proponent for Nynorsk. Personal life Eskeland was born at Stord as the son of farmers Øystein Larsson Eskeland and Mari Larsdotter Vatna, and was a br ...

. In 1896 he bought the local newspaper ''

Hordaland Hordaland () was a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland counties. Hordaland was the third largest county, after Akershus and Oslo, by population. The county government was the Hordaland County Municipal ...

'', and became editor-in-chief. In 1898 he published the

songbook A song book is a book containing lyrics for songs. Song books may be simple composition books or spiral-bound notebooks. Music publishers also produced printed editions for group singing. Such volumes were used in the United States by piano manu ...

''Norsk Songbok for Ungdomsskular og Ungdomslag'', which became very popular through the twentieth century. He left the folk high school in 1902, and died the next year.

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1866 births 1903 deaths Norwegian educators Norwegian newspaper editors People from Haram, Norway People from Voss {{Norway-writer-stub