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Bjarne Nissen

He took his education as a chemical engineer at Kristiania Technical School, in Charlottenburg, Copenhagen and Munich.

Campus Kristiania

In addition to Oslo, Campus Kristiania offers education in Trondheim, Bergen, Stavanger, Kristiansand, Tønsberg and Drammen and has approximately 70000 students.

Carl Bock

He was a member of Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania (now Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters) and was a knight, first class of the Order of St. Olav.

Ella Hval

Ella Hval (born Ella Signe Quist Kristoffersen) (7 January 1904, Kristiania – 17 December 1994, Stavanger) was a Norwegian actress.

Frogner Manor

From the mid 17th century to the late 19th century, it was owned by wealthy officials or burghers of Christiania, but it was sold to the municipality of Kristiania in 1896 to make room for urban expansion and a new cemetery (Vestre gravlund).

Gaston Paris

Before returning home he also visited Kristiania (Oslo) to take part in a celebration of the Norwegian philosopher Marcus Jacob Monrad.

Guri Stormoen

She was born in Kristiania as a daughter of actor Harald Stormoen (1872–1937) and his first wife, theatre leader Inga Bjørnson (1871–1952).

Henry Dalton

The first successful surgery on the heart itself was performed by Norwegian surgeon Axel Cappelen on 4 September 1895 at Rikshospitalet in Kristiania, now Oslo.

Hulda Garborg

During the period at Kolbotn, the family often visited Kristiania, they stayed longer periods in Dießen am Ammersee, Fürstenfeldbruck and Berlin in Germany, and also lived one winter in Paris.

Kristian Welhaven

He worked in Tana, Tromsø and Kristiania until he was appointed Chief of Police in Rjukan in 1916.

Lise Stauri

Lise also studied gymnastics in Denmark, finally graduated from Elverum Teachers' Seminary in 1904, worked as a teacher in Vats, Buøy and Stavanger and finished additional teacher courses in Kristiania in 1907.

Michael Puntervold

Puntervold resided in Kristiania until 1906, when he moved to Bækkelaget in Aker.

Røros Line

The connection southwards from Hamar was with boat over the lake Mjøsa to Eidsvoll, and the Hoved Line to Oslo (Kristiania).

Sigmund Mowinckel

He was educated at the University of Oslo (1908; ThD 1916) (in those days Oslo was still officially called Kristiania), and from 1917 onwards he was a lecturer there.

SS Viking

Viking was a wooden-hulled whaling ship built by Nylands at Christiania, Norway in 1881, the same location where another famous Newfoundland vessel, Southern Cross, was constructed.

Ten Days That Shook the World

Upon returning from Russia during April 1918 from Kristiania in Norway, after being barred from either traveling to the United States or returning to Russia since February 23 by the State Department, Reed's trunk of notes and materials on the revolution—which included Russian handbills, newspapers, and speeches—were seized by custom officials, who interrogated him for four hours over his activities in Russia during the previous eight months.

Walter von Gerich

He was arrested in Kristiania 16 June 1917, but after diplomatic pressure from Germany he was set free and escorted by the police to Germany 27 June 1917, due to his role as courier for the German Emperor.


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