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NANSEN, Fridtjof

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  • 1. Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
  • 2. The College of Wooster, United States
  • 3. Geneva, Switzerland

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Norwegian scientist and High Commissioner for Refugees of the League of Nations 1921-1930 Was born 10 October 1861 in Store Frøen, Norway, and passed away 13 May 1930 in Lysaker, Norway. He was the son of Baldur Nansen, lawyer, and Baroness Adelaide Wedel Jarlsberg. On 6 September 1889 he married Eva Helene Sars, classical singer. They had two daughters and three sons. After Sars' death on 9 December 1907 he married Sigrun Sandberg, who had divorced from Gerhard Munthe, on 17 January 1919. Entry in IO BIO, Biographical Dictionary of Secretaries-General of International Organizations.

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