Werner Werenskiold
Werner Werenskiold (born April 28, 1883 in Paris , France , † August 2, 1961 in Bærum , Norway ) was a Norwegian geologist , geographer and professor at the University of Oslo .
Life
Werner Werenskiold was born in Paris in April 1883. His parents were the painter and draftsman Erik Werenskiold (1855-1938) and his mother Sophie Marie Stoltenberg Thomesen (1849-1926). He had a younger brother Dagfin Werenskiold (1892–1977), who became a painter and sculptor . The family moved to Lysaker together , where he grew up on the Solberg farm . After graduating from the Latin private school Aars og Voss in Oslo in 1901, he began studying science at the University of Oslo .
In 1907 he took part in a mathematical and scientific examination . Thereupon he was called to see King Oskar II . During his studies he traveled every summer from 1904 with the Geological Survey Norway (NGU). His research on bedrock in Norway led to a new map of the foundations of southern Norway being made. From 1907 to 1917 he was the assistant and examined large-scale foundations in Oslo and Bamble . During this time he also explored Gudbrandsdalen , the longest valley in Norway.
From 1910 to 1915 he was a research fellow, 1915-1925 he was a lecturer and finally from 1925 to 1953 with Aksel Arstal (1855-1940) Professor in Geography at the University of Oslo. After Werenskiold had spent many years doing research on rocks, his interest changed, so that from 1917 to 1924 he spent several summer months every year making maps of glaciers . He preferred to map glaciers in Jotunheimen . In 1924 he described the wind conditions in the North Pacific in a meteorological work . During his time as a lecturer, he distanced himself from geography and taught more geophysics and more mathematics.
Werenskiold was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences from 1926 and an honorary member of the International Union for Geodesy and Geophysicists . In 1942 Werner Werenskiold and his wife had a daughter, Marit Werenskiod. He died in August 1961, about two weeks after a road accident involving a car in Lysaker.
On the island of Hopen in Svalbard is mountain Werenskioldfjellet named after him. The same applies to the Werenskiold Bastion headland in Antarctica.
Bibliography (selection)
- Geological map between Sætersdalen and Ringerike , Norges geologiske undersøkelse , number 66, 1912
- Norges geologiske undersøkelse , number 70, pages 13-35, 1914
- Norges fysiske og økonomiske geografi , issue 8, 1936
Web links
- Norwegian national biography of Werner Werenskiold (Norwegian)
- Olaf Holtedahl to Werner Werenskiold on foreninger.uio.no
Individual evidence
- ↑ Professor Werenskiold. Retrieved October 15, 2016 (Norwegian)
- ^ Werenskiold at the University of Oslo. Retrieved October 15, 2016
- ^ Mount Werenskioldfjellet. Retrieved October 15, 2016 (Norwegian)
- ^ Norge geologiske undersøkelse. Retrieved October 15, 2016 (Norwegian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Werenskiold, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian geologist and geographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd August 1961 |
| Place of death | Bærum , Norway |