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Gustav Antonio Gjessing

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Gustav Antonio Gjessing
Born22 September 1835 Edit this on Wikidata
Died3 December 1921 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 86)

Gustav Antonio Gjessing (22 September 1835 – 3 December 1921) was a Norwegian philologist.

He was born in Drammen as a son of Christian Gjessing and Anne Thrane Stoltenberg. In July 1865 in Kristiania he married Helga Margrethe Elisabeth Monrad (1845–1920), a daughter of the famous philosopher Marcus Jacob Monrad.[1] He was the father of archeologist Helge Gjessing,[2] an uncle of ophthalmologist Harald Gjessing[3] and grandfather of archaeologist Gutorm Gjessing.[4]

He enrolled as a student in 1854, and graduated with the cand.philol. degree in 1861. He worked as a school teacher from 1862, from 1865 at Kristiansand Cathedral School. He then worked at a school in Arendal from 1880 to his 1904 retirement. His specialty was the Old Norse language, and he published a number of academic works during his teacher career. His main work was Undersøgelse af Kongesagaens Fremvæxt, published in two volumes in 1873 and 1876. In 1899 he published a translation of the Poetic Edda. He was also a member of Arendal city council from 1897 to 1900, and was a chairman of the local library and museum. After retiring he moved to Lysaker with his wife, where he died in December 1921.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Olsen, Magnus (1929). "Gjessing, Gustav Antonio". In Bull, Edvard; Jansen, Einar (eds.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Vol. 4 (1st ed.). Oslo: Aschehoug. pp. 482–483.
  2. ^ Brøgger, A. W. (1929). "Gjessing, Helge Johan". In Bull, Edvard; Jansen, Einar (eds.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Vol. 4 (1st ed.). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 485.
  3. ^ Gade, F. G. (1929). "Gjessing, Harald Gustav Antonio". In Bull, Edvard; Jansen, Einar (eds.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Vol. 4 (1st ed.). Oslo: Aschehoug. pp. 484–485.
  4. ^ Klausen, Arne Martin. "Gutorm Gjessing". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 18 June 2009.