Agnar Johannes Barth

Agnar Johannes Barth (26 August 1871 – 4 May 1948) was a Norwegian forester.

He was born in Lillehammer as the son of Jacob Bøckmann Barth. Described as his "country's leading authority on forestry for many years", he was a professor at the Norwegian College of Agriculture from 1921, and served as rector (roughly, the president) there from 1928 to 1933.[1][2]

Barth was a reserve officer in the Norwegian Army, attaining the rank of Second Lieutenant in 1891.[3] In one of his first immatriculation speeches, in 1929, he praised the youth in general, and especially the youth who "has created Mussolini's Italy while struggling against corrupted radicalism and communism; an Italian country, which from an essentially impoverished state, standing on the brink of cultural and material collapse, in the course of a few years have been brought fourth to a blossoming state, where the entire people, united and purposeful, with incredible intensity labour for the country's progress".[4]

References
  1. "Agnar Johannes Barth". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian).
  2. Strand, Lars. "Agnar Barth". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  3. Petersen, Alf (1936). "Barth, Agnar Johannes". Den norske hærs vernepliktige officerer: 1864-1933 (in Norwegian). Oslo: A. M. Hanche. p. 71.
  4. "Rektor Barth hilser de nye studenter velkommen". Nationen (in Norwegian). 21 August 1929. pp. 1, 4.
Academic offices
Preceded by
Sigvald Hasund		 Rector of the Norwegian College of Agriculture
1928–1933		 Succeeded by
Lars Loe


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