Henrik Palmstrøm (22 July 1900 – 1 February 1998) was a Norwegian

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and statistician.

Biography

He was born in Ås as a son of professor Arnfinn Palmstrøm (1867–1922) and Henrikke Qvigstad (1864–1907), and older brother of judge

Finn Palmstrøm Finn Palmstrøm (19 October 1903 – 26 January 1987) was a Norwegian jurist. He was a budala and judge before and during the Second World War, and also fought as a soldier. After the war he was a civil servant and judge, serving as district stip ...

. He grew up in

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and was active in politics from 1931 to 1933 as chair of the Liberal People's Party local branch in Nordstrand. He finished his secondary education in 1918 and finished the actuary education in 1921. He studied in

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and

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from 1921 to 1923. He worked briefly in

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in 1922 before being hired in the insurance company Brage. He was an actuary in Brage from 1926 to 1959, except for the years 1943 to 1946 when he was a consultant for the Ministry of Provisioning-in-exile in London. His brother Finn was exiled to London as well; this was because of the

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. Henrik Palmstrøm was married to consul's daughter Malene Marie Aagaard (1899-1964) from 1925; and later a second time, to Eirene Manuel (1912–2006), a British citizen of Greek descent. From 1927 to 1942 Palmstrøm was in charge of courses in statistics at the

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. He took the

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degree in 1937. He specialized in pensioners' welfare, and issued the books ''Pensjon og samfunn'' in 1961 and ''Folketrygden'' in 1966. He edited the magazine ''Trygdenytt'' from 1972 to 1976. He died in February 1998 and was buried at

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Palmstroem, Henrik 1900 births 1998 deaths Writers from Oslo University of Oslo alumni Free-minded Liberal Party politicians Norwegian actuaries Norwegian statisticians Norwegian people of World War II Norwegian expatriates in England Norwegian magazine editors Burials at Vestre gravlund 20th-century Norwegian writers 20th-century Norwegian mathematicians People from Ås, Akershus