Amund Ringnes
Amund Ringnes (born October 7, 1840 in Krødsherad , † January 13, 1907 in Christiania ) was a Norwegian entrepreneur and patron . He is known for his financial support to polar researchers Fridtjof Nansen and Otto Sverdrup .
Life
Amund Ringnes was born in 1840 as the son of the farmer Anders Knudsen Ringnes (1813-1875) and his wife Maren Amundsdatter (1815-1876).
Ringnes initially worked for Akers Mekanikse Verksted for five years before moving to the Christiania brewery in 1865. In 1876 he founded the Ringnes & Co. brewery together with his younger brother Ellef and the financier Axel Heiberg . Ellef was in charge of the commercial management, while Amund was responsible for production . In 1896 he was a co-founder of the Holmenkollenbahn .
Together with Axel Heiberg and the shipowner Thomas Fearnley (1841–1927), the Ringnes brothers collected private donations for Nansen's Fram expedition from 1893 to 1896. The Ringnes & Co. company alone donated 6,000 crowns . Again with Heiberg, Amund and Ellef Ringnes financed the Second Fram Expedition from 1898–1902 under Captain Otto Sverdrup. The Norwegian Parliament paid 20,000 of the total cost of 216,000 crowns . The remainder was shared equally by the sponsors. The expedition led to extensive geographical discoveries in the Canadian Arctic (about 150,000 km²). Sverdrup named the three largest of the newly discovered islands Amund-Ringnes- , Ellef-Ringnes- and Axel-Heiberg-Insel .
For his services, Amund Ringnes was decorated with the Order of Saint Olav ( knight 1st class 1898, commander 1902).
Amund Ringnes was married to Laura Jensen (1850-1902) since September 19, 1870.
literature
- Øystein Øystå: Amund Ringnes . In: Norsk biografisk leksikon
- Article Amund Ringnes in Store norske leksikon
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fridtjof Nansen: In night and ice . Volume I, Brockhaus, Leipzig 1897, p. 44
- ^ Otto Sverdrup: Nyt Land. Fire Aar i arktiske Egne , Vol. 2, Aschehoug, Kristiania 1903, p. 526
- ↑ a b Otto Sverdrup: Nyt Land. Fire Aar i arktiske Egne , Vol. 1, Aschehoug, Kristiania 1903, p. 2
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ringnes, Amund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian businessman and patron |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krødsherad |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1907 |
| Place of death | Oslo |