Adam Egede-Nissen
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| Born |
Adam Hjalmar Egede-Nissen June 29, 1868 Levanger, Norway |
| Died | April 4, 1953 (aged 84) Bærum, Akershus, Norway |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Spouse(s) | Georga Wilhelma Ellertsen |
| Children |
Aud Egede-Nissen Gerd Grieg Ada Kramm Gøril Havrevold |
| Relatives | Georg Richter (grandson) |
Adam Hjalmar Egede-Nissen (b. 29 June 1868 in Levanger, d. 4 April 1953 in Bærum, Akershus), a Norwegian postmaster and politician, began his political career in the Liberal Party and was first elected to the Storting (parliament) in 1900. He later switched to the Labour Party before eventually joining the Communist Party of Norway, serving as party chairman from 1934 to 1946.
Adam Hjalmar Egede-Nissen was born on an Øvre Rinnan farm at Frol (today part of Levanger) in Nord-Trøndelag, where his father Paul Christian Egede-Nissen (1835–1891) was then serving in the medical corps of the Norwegian Army. Having qualified as a medical doctor in 1858 and having been active as a military physician in the Italian liberation struggle led by Giuseppe Garibaldi, by 1863 the father was practicing medicine in Tromsø; by 1867 he was a commissioned officer with the rank of major and was a regimental surgeon stationed with the army at Levanger. Adam Egede-Nissen's mother was Sophie Amalie Normann of Harstad (1826–1912), widow of Søren Schøning (1816–1861), who had been a merchant on Grøtøya in Kvaløya municipality; she married his father in 1863, and the couple had two children, Pauline Fayette Egede-Nissen (b. 1864) and Søren Kristian Henrik Egede-Nissen (b. 1866) before their last child, Adam Egede-Nissen, was born in 1868. Besides his two full siblings, he had a stepbrother, Jakob Schøning.
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