Sigurd Gotaas, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Sigurd Gotaas

Norwegian ski jumper

Date of Birth: 21-Dec-1863

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: athlete

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Sigurd Gotaas

  • Sigurd Gotaas (21 December 1863 – 1944) was a Norwegian physician and sportsman. He was born in Ullensaker.
  • Gotaas was the first vice chairman of the skiing club SK Ull from 1883 to 1885, then the second to serve as chairman from 1885 to 1887.
  • He participated in Husebyrennet, one of the main skiing events of the time.
  • He later participated in motor sports, and was known in dog breeding circles.
  • In 1907 he founded a club for pointer breeders, Norsk Pointerklub.He graduated with the cand.med.
  • degree in 1892.
  • After serving briefly in Trondhjem, he was municipal physician in Nord-Aurdal from 1892 to 1895, then private physician in Lillestrøm.
  • He eventually became municipal physician, and also physician for the garrison at Kjeller Airport.
  • In the winter of 1939–1940 he served on board a large whaler in the Southern Ocean.He died in 1944.
  • His daughter Harda Sophie Borchgrevink Gotaas, whom he had together with Charlotte Frimann Dahl (1866–1965), married industrialist Odd Engelund.

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