Norwegian Planters - Otto Sverdrup, Lauritz Sand, Norman Lind (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Otto Neumann Knoph Sverdrup (31 October 1854 26 November 1930) was a Norwegian sailor and Arctic explorer. He was born in Bindal as a son of farmer Ulrik Frederik Suhm Sverdrup (18331914) and his wife Petra Neumann Knoph (18311885). He was a great-grandnephew of Georg Sverdrup and Jacob Liv Borch Sverdrup, first cousin twice removed of Harald Ulrik and Johan Sverdrup, second cousin once removed of Jakob, Georg and Edvard Sverdrup, third cousin of Georg Johan, Jakob, Mimi, Leif and Harald Ulrik Sverdrup. He was a brother-in-law of Johan Vaaler, and Otto himself married his own first cousin, Gretha Andrea Engelschin (18661937), in October 1891 in Kristiania. Their daughter Audhild Sverdrup (18931932) married Carl Johan Sverdrup Marstrander. His father was born on Buy in Kolvereid municipality. As oldest son Otto was heir to the Sverdrup properties at Buy. However, he left it all to his younger brothers and went to bygda in Bindal, to the farm named Hrstad, where Otto Sverdrup was born. In 1872, at the age of 17, Otto Sverdrup returned to N ry, to Ottersy where his uncle Sren worked in transportation with his own vessels. Here Sverdrup started his career as a seaman and after a while he was sailing abroad. In 1875 he passed his mate's examination, and some years later the shipmaster's examination. In 1877 Sverdrup's parents moved from Bindal to the farm Trana outside Steinkjer. At this time O.T. Olsen, a teacher and employee in the bank at Kolvereid and a relative of his mother, had purchased the steamboat TRIO. Sverdrup was employed as captain. Around this time Sverdrup also met the lawyer Alexander Nansen who lived in Namsos. He was the brother of Fridtjof Nansen and through him Sverdrup and Fridtjof Nansen learned to ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=827551