1881 in Norway
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Events in the year 1881 in Norway.
Incumbents
Events
- More than 600 Norwegians sign on as contract laborers for sugar plantations in Hawaii, making a four month journey to the islands.[2]
Arts and literature
- Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen's, Ghosts, is released.
Births
January to June
- 3 January â Wilhelm Faye, military officer and war historian (died 1967).[3][4]
- 5 January â Jørgen Bru, sport shooter (died 1974)
- 24 February â Per Askim, naval officer (died 1963).[5]
- 27 February â Sigvard Sivertsen, gymnast and Olympic gold medallist (died 1963)
- 11 March â Wictor Esbensen, mariner and explorer (died 1942)
- 17 March â Kristian Elster, Jr, novelist, literary historian, theatre critic and biographer (born 1881).[6]
- 20 March â Dorthea Dahl, writer in America (died 1958)
- 26 March â Marta Marie Nielsen, schoolteacher and politician (d. 1948).[7]
- 28 April â Carl Bonnevie, jurist and politician (died 1972).[8]
- 6 June â Anton Djupvik, politician (died 1951)
July to December
- 23 July â Thorleiv Røhn, military officer, gymnast and Olympic gold medallist (died 1963)
- 3 August â Elias Corneliussen, naval officer (died 1951).[9]
- 27 August â Elise Hambro, educator (died 1966).[10]
- 13 September â Carl Bugge, geologist (died 1968).[11]
- 15 September â Wilhelm Blystad, track and field athlete (died 1954)
- 11 October â Leif Georg Ferdinand Bang, politician
- 25 October â Oskar Braaten, novelist and playwright (died 1939)
- 27 October â Edvard Larsen, triple jumper and Olympic bronze medallist (died 1914)
- 29 October â Niels Christian Ditleff, diplomat (died 1956)
- 7 November â Rikard Berge, folklorist (died 1969).[12]
- 15 November â Andreas Hagelund, gymnast and Olympic gold medallist (died 1967)
- 4 December â Edvard Bull, Sr., historian and politician (died 1932)
- 17 December â Yngvar Bryn, track and field athlete and pairs figure skater (died 1947)
- 27 December â Sigvart Johansen, rifle shooter and Olympic bronze medallist
Full date unknown
- Erik Glosimodt, architect (died 1921)
- Marie Hamsun, actor and writer (died 1969)
- Sigurd Halvorsen Johannessen, politician (died 1964)
- Per Larssen, politician and Minister (died 1947)
- Knut Liestøl, politician and Minister (died 1952)
- Kristian Prestrud, polar explorer (died 1927)
- Jakob Sverdrup, philologist and lexicographer (died 1938)
Deaths
- 7 January â Jens Zetlitz Kielland, consul and artist (born 1816)
- 11 April â Kristian Elster, Sr, novelist, journalist, literary critic and theatre critic (born 1841).[13]
Full date unknown
- Jens Henrik Beer, businessperson, farmer and politician (born 1799)
- Jens Gran, politician (born 1794)
- Christopher Andreas Holmboe, philologist (born 1796)
- Peter Daniel B. W. Kildal, politician (born 1816)
- Thomas Konow, naval officer and politician (born 1796)
- Ludvig Vibe, philologist and educator (born 1803)
