Knut Gjerset

Knut Gjerset (September 15, 1865 - October 29, 1936) was a Norwegian-American author and historian.

Knut Gjerset was born in Romsdal, Norway. He immigrated with his family to Chippewa County, Minnesota during 1871. Gjerset attended Willmar Seminary in Willmar, Minnesota and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in literature from the University of Minnesota. He was a professor at Luther College and served as curator of the Norwegian-American Historical Museum. He also served as the chairman of the committee on exhibits for the Norse-American Centennial in 1925.

Selected works

• English Grammar (1908)
• Brændevinssamla gene og avholdsarbeidet i Norge (1911)
• History of the Norwegian People. Two Volumes (1915)
• Luther College Museum (1923)
• John Martin Kalberlahn (1924)
• History of Iceland (1924)
• Health Conditions and the Practice of Medicine Among the Early Norwegian Settlers, 1825-1865. with Dr. Ludvig Hektoen (1926)
• Norwegian-American Studies and Records. with Theodore C. Blegen, Kristian Prestgard, and Laurence M. Larson (1927)
• Norwegian-American Historical Museum (1929)
• Norwegian Sailors on the Great Lakes (1933)

Other sources

• The Luther College Faculty Luther College Through Sixty Years 1861-1921 (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House. 1922)
• Norlie, Olaf History of the Norwegian People in America (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House. 1925)

External links

• Gjerset House at Luther College
• Knut Gjerset, Historiker og Litteraturforsker Store norske leksikon