Johan Kristian Skougaard (31 July 1847 – 25 September 1925) was a

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military officer and politician. He was born in

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, and originally took his education in the Norwegian military. He was hired as an engineer in the

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in 1873, and left the military in 1887. He served as

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in 1905, and as director of the Norwegian Directorate of Public Roads from 1904 to 1918. He was also a non-fiction writer, publishing the ''Det norske veivesens historie'' in two volumes, and a lexicographer, publishing a French-Norwegian dictionary in 1921. A Norwegian-French dictionary was published posthumously.

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1847 births 1925 deaths Norwegian Army personnel Mayors of Oslo Directors of government agencies of Norway Norwegian lexicographers Directorate of Public Roads people {{Norway-mil-bio-stub