Bernt Holtsmark
| Bernt Holtsmark | |
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| Member of Parliament | |
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In office 1904–1909 |
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| Minister of Agriculture | |
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In office 1910–1912 |
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| Member of Parliament | |
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In office 1916–1921 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
27 December 1859 Asker |
| Died | 20 April 1941 (aged 81) |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Political party |
Conservative Coalition Liberal Left Party |
| Relations |
Bent Holtsmark (father) Torger Holtsmark (brother) Gabriel Gabrielsen Holtsmark (brother) Johan Peter Holtsmark (nephew) Anne Elisabeth Holtsmark (niece) Karen Holtsmark (niece) Finn Blakstad (first cousin) Wilhelm Blakstad (first cousin) Ragnvald Blakstad (first cousin) |
Bernt Holtsmark (27 December 1859 – 20 April 1941) was a Norwegian farmer and politician for the Conservative Party and the Liberal Left Party. He was a four-term member of the Parliament of Norway, and served as Minister of Agriculture from 1910 to 1912. He was also known for establishing the agricultural college at Sem in his native Asker.
He was born at Tveter farm in Asker as a son of Bent Holtsmark and his wife Anne Elisabeth Gabrielsen. He was a brother of Torger and Wilhelm Holtsmark. Through his brother Gabriel, he was an uncle of professors Johan Peter Holtsmark and Anne Elisabeth Holtsmark, and painter Karen Holtsmark. He was also a first cousin of Finn, Wilhelm. and Ragnvald Blakstad.
In October 1887 he married Johanne Amalie Koller, a daughter of Carl Theodor Fredrik Koller. The marriage lasted until her death in February 1917. Holtsmark then married Ingeborg Mathilde Bye in June 1919.
He attended a private agricultural school at Østensjø from 1876 to 1878, the Higher College of Agriculture at Aas from 1883 to 1884 and the Landwirtschaftliche Hochschule Berlin (Agricultural University of Berlin) from 1885 to 1886. In 1887, together with his brother Wilhelm, he established an agricultural college at the farm Sem, today known as a manor which in 2001 lent its name to the Declaration of Sem of the second cabinet Bondevik. They ran the college until 1914. In 1893 he took over the farm Tveter, and was a farmer there. His book Husdyrlære, a textbook on , came in 1897 and was reprinted fourteen times, last in 1961. Also, he contributed to the newspapers and magazines Budstikken, Dagbladet, Verdens Gang, Tidens Tegn and Allers with writings on agriculture.
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