Øyvind Anker (13 July 1904 – 30 December 1989) was a Norwegian librarian.
Personal life
He was born in
Frankfurt am Main as a son of engineer Nils Botvid Anker (1878–1943) and artist and pianist Gudrun Nilssen (1875–1958). He grew up in
Vestre Aker and
Lillehammer. He was a brother of
Synnøve Anker Aurdal,
and through her a brother-in-law of
Ludvig Eikaas. Through another sister Ella he was a brother-in-law of
Frede Castberg. He was a great-grandson of
Peter Martin Anker, grandson of
Herman Anker, nephew of
Katti Anker Møller (and her husband
Kai Møller) and
Ella Anker, grandnephew of
Nils Anker,
Christian August Anker and
Dikka Møller, and a first cousin of
Peter Martin Anker and
Tove Mohr.
In March 1933 he married pianist Eva Høst (1908–1968).
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Career
He finished his secondary education in 1923, attended the Norwegian Military Academy for one year before studying at the Royal Frederick University. He graduated with the cand.philol. degree in Norwegian in 1931, with the master's thesis ''Bjørnson og Grundtvig inntil 1872''. He had been hired at the University Library of Oslo already in 1929, and continued working there after graduating. From 1936 he was the manager of the Norwegian National Music Collection,[ but on 20 August 1943 he was arrested by Nazi Germans as a part of ]World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
. He was imprisoned in the prisoner-of-war camps Oflag XXI-C and Oflag III-A until the camps were liberated.
His first publication as a librarian was ''Rikard Nordraak. Samlede verker'' with Olav Gurvin in 1942. The two published the music encyclopedia ''Musikkleksikon'' in 1949, and Anker had also edited the general encyclopedia ''Nyco konversasjonsleksikon'' together with Rolf Haffner in 1935.[ Anker co-edited volumes 13 through 19 of the ]biographical dictionary
A biographical dictionary is a type of encyclopedic dictionary limited to biographical information. Many attempt to cover the major personalities of a country (with limitations, such as living persons only, in ''Who's Who'', or deceased people o ...
'' Norsk Biografisk Leksikon'' from 1957 to 1983.[
Anker was a board member of ''Norsk Samfunn for Musikkgransking'' and the Norwegian Folk Music Research Association, and chairman of ''Teaterhistorisk Selskap''. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature from 1953 (and secretary from 1969 to 1979) and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1965. He died in December 1989 in Oslo.][
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1904 births
1989 deaths
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