Ole Tobias Olsen

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Ole Tobias Olsen
Bust of Ole Tobias Olsen in front of the train station in Mo i Rana

Ole Tobias Olsen (born August 18, 1830 in Bjøllåne's garden in Storvoll , Dunderlandsdalen , Norway ; † July 6, 1924 in Christiania ) was a Norwegian teacher , photographer , songwriter, collector of folklore and folk songs, organist , mayor and engineer . He is known as the father of the Nordlandsbane .

Life

Olsen was the son of the farmer Ole Pedersen Bjellånes (1774–1849) and Milda Nils Dotter (1800–1878).

After his training, Olsen worked as a teacher at the Tromsø Seminarium from 1851 , then in Hadsel and in 1855 in Christiania. He was an avid advocate for Northern Norway issues. Together with Elias Blix he was one of the founders of Nordlændingernes Forening in 1862 . The engineer developed the blue paper , for which he received a patent . In 1870 he received a scholarship to collect fairy tales, legends and folk songs by Rana especially in Dunderlandsdalen. As a planner of the Nordlandsbane , in 1881/1882 he developed the idea of ​​taking it to Røsvik and then via Mo i Rana , Haparanda and St. Petersburg to Beijing .

In 1877 he married Christine Bernhardine Dahl (1855–1910), with her he had ten children. Among them were Ole Tobias Olsen (1878-1940), Mayor of Mosjøen , who took part in the 1906 Olympic Games as a shooter, the zoologist Oliver Olsen (1885-1972) and the geologist Anders K. Orvin (1889-1980).

Olsen was pastor and mayor of Hattfjelldal from 1883 to 1904, after which he moved to Oslo and lived there until his death in 1924. During this time he took numerous photographs of buildings in Oslo. His faith lived according to the Grundtvig rules .

Awards

In 1919, Olsen became a first-class knight of the Order of Saint Olav .

Monuments to Ole Tobias Olsen can be found on Bjøllånes' birthplace, at Mo i Rana train station and by Hattfjelldal church.

In 2000 the newspaper Rana Blad declared him Århundrets Ranværing (roughly Rana Citizen of the Century ).

Works

Many of his findings were only published in later books. His collection of fairy tales, legends and folk songs appeared in the book Folketonar frå Nordland in 1982 . In 2005 a compilation of folk songs from Helgeland ( Norwegian Folketoner fra Helgeland ) was published by the Helgeland Kammerkor . The plant Ole Tobias Olsens mutinger is the result of his entrepreneurial activities 1872-1899.

  • Ole Tobias Olsen: Nogle Indlednings-Salmer . Kristiania 1891.
  • Ole Tobias Olsen: Norske folkeeventyr og sagn: samlet i Nordland . JW Cappelen, Kristiania 1912.
  • Øystein Gaukstad: Folketonar frå Nordland . Oslo 1982.
  • Else M. Boye and Harald Hals II .: Christiania and omegn. Otteogtyve bilder photographed by Ole Tobias Olsen . Oslo Bymuseum, Oslo 1963.

Photographs by Olsen

literature

  • Anton Frederik Winter Jakhelln Prytz: Sogneprest Ole Tobias Olsen 1830-1924 . Oslo 1924 ( ifi.uio.no [PDF]).
  • Erling Svanberg (ed.): Langs vei og lei i Nordland: samferdsel i Nordland gjennom 3000 år . Nordland fylkeskommune, Bodø 1990, ISBN 82-7416-021-5 , urn : nbn: no-nb_digibok_2010110308003 (only for Norwegian internet users).

Web links

Commons : Ole Tobias Olsen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hallgeir Elstad: Ole Tobias Olsen . In: Store Norske Leksikon .
personal data
SURNAME Olsen, Ole Tobias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian teacher, photographer, songwriter, collector of folklore and folk songs, organist, mayor and engineer
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Bjøllånes garden, Storvoll , Dunderlandsdalen, Norway
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1924
Place of death Christiania