Ragnar Vold

Ragnar Vold (22 November 1906 – 16 June 1967) was a Norwegian journalist, non-fiction writer and novelist.

Ragnar Vold
Born(1906-11-22)22 November 1906
Kristiansund, Norway
Died16 June 1967(1967-06-16) (aged 60)
Oslo, Norway
NationalityNorwegian
OccupationJournalist, non-fiction writer and novelist
Spouse(s)Sogrid Marie Johanna Wilhelmsen (1937–1967; his death)
ChildrenJan Erik Vold
Parent(s)William Benjamin Hansen Vold (father)
Helga Askevold (mother)

He was born in Kristiansund as a son of William Benjamin Hansen Vold (1874–1943) and Helga Askevold (1875–1930), both teachers. He was a grandnephew of Anders Askevold. In May 1937 in Vestre Aker he married nurse Sigrid Marie Johanna Wilhelmsen (1913–1992), a granddaughter of Lars Aagaard Meyer. They had the son Jan Erik Vold, a poet.[1]

During the 1930s he was a correspondent for the newspaper Dagbladet, and was among the Norwegian journalists who most explicitly warned about the emergence of Nazism in Germany. From 1945 he edited the foreign affairs section of Dagbladet.[1][2] He was a minor ballot candidate for the Liberal Party in the 1953 election.[3]

He died at the age of 60, in Oslo.

Select works
  • Tyskland marsjerer – hvorfor? – hvorhen?. 1934.
  • Mennesket søker fotfeste. 1939.
  • Dagbladet i Tigerstaden. 1949.
  • Dagbladet i krig og fred 1930–1954. 1968. (completed by Reidar Anthonsen)
  • Motstand: artikler i Dagbladet 1930–1945. 2006. (collected by Jan Erik Vold)
gollark: We believe that 73% of bacteria on the Earth's surface are now conscious.
gollark: Actually, we isolated consciousness back in 2002 and patched it into a bunch of bacterial genomes along with a bunch of general optimisations so they'll compete better.
gollark: What of the bacteria which could process the food?
gollark: We cancelled that last year.
gollark: At GTech™, when modelling, we just iterate through all possible models in order from lowest Kolmogorov complexity to highest, and find the one which fits our data best weighted by that.

References
  1. Dahl, Hans Fredrik. "Ragnar Vold". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
  2. Henriksen, Petter (ed.). "Ragnar Vold". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
  3. "Norges Offisielle Statistikk. XI. 180. Stortingsvalget 1953" (PDF) (in Norwegian). Statistics Norway.


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