Ernst Anton Henrik Sinding (8 December 1839 – 11 January 1924) was a Norwegian school director.
Personal life
He was born in
Larvik
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as a son of vicar Otto Ludvig Sinding (1809–1890) and Dorothea Magdalene Lammers. He was a brother of Elisabeth Sinding and
Gustav Adolf Sinding
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Alfred Sinding-Larsen
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and the three siblings
Christian
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,
Otto
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and
Stephan Sinding
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.
In April 1864 in
Kristiania
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he married Alfhild Bassøe (1846–1919). Through his son Bjarne he was a grandfather of economist and statistician Thomas Sinding.
Career
He finished his secondary education in 1856, and graduated from university with the cand.real. degree in 1863. He worked as a teacher from 1864 to February 1873. He also worked part-time at the
Royal Frederick University
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from 1865 t 1873. From 1873 to 1915 he was the first director of Kristiania Technical School. He also lectured in mathematics. The school was important in educating Norwegian technicians and engineers, before the
Norwegian Institute of Technology
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had been founded (in 1910).
He was also a member of the Patent Commission, and, when it was founded, the