Aslak Torjusson, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Aslak Torjusson

Norwegian educator

Date of Birth: 04-Mar-1891

Date of Death: 26-Apr-1973

Profession: writer

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Aslak Torjusson

  • Aslak Torjusson (4 March 1891 – 26 April 1973) was a Norwegian educator. He was born in Rauland.
  • He took teacher's education in Holmestrand in 1912, finished secondary education in 1918 and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the cand.philol.
  • degree in 1923.
  • While doing so he was a primary school teacher from 1912 to 1920 and then a teacher at Telemark Folk High School for four years.From 1927 to 1936 he was the secretary of Noregs MĂĄllag.
  • He was then the headmaster of Buskerud Folk High School from 1936 to 1952 and lecturer at Sagene Teachers' College from 1952 to 1961.
  • He was also a board member of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1933 to 1947.He issued the book Frøydis Haavardsholm og norsk leid i dekorativ kunst in 1933.
  • He did not manage to complete his standard work about Norwegian folk high schools—Den norske folkehøgskulen.
  • Opphav og grunnlag—within his lifespan, but it was finished by Helge Dahl in 1977.He died in April 1973.
  • His daughter Anne Torjusson Diesen was assisting director of television in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in the 1990s, and an experienced journalist covering the Norwegian Royal Court.
  • She was married to Erik Diesen.

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