Karl Akre

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Karl Edvard Pedersen Akre (26 March 1840 – 14 March 1912) was a Norwegian educator and politician for the Liberal Party.

He was born in Alta, and graduated as a teacher from in 1862. He started working as a teacher in Kjelvik, but moved to Vadsø in 1865. At the primary school there, he advanced from second teacher to first teacher in 1884 and headmaster in 1911.[1]

With minor interruptions he was a member of Vadsø city council from 1869 to 1910, and also chaired the school board.[1] He was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1885, representing the urban constituency of Hammerfest, Vardø og Vadsø. He served only one three-year term 1886–1889.[2]

Akre was a co-founder of the newspaper in 1871. His orthography was ahead of its time, and reminiscent of the 1907 standard of Riksmål (Dano-Norwegian). He was also a supporter of Landsmål, and founded the Landsmål publication Finnmarkingen together with in July 1875. This was the northernmost Landsmål publication in Norway, however it only lasted for two issues.[1] Later, in 1877, Akre publicly supported the Finnish language newspaper for the minority in Finnmark, Ruijan Suomenkielinen Lehti. Akre had been a teacher for Kven people in Alta, and was one of the few Norwegians who publicly supported the newspaper's existence.[3] Akre was also a temperance activist, presiding over the meeting that founded the (a splinter of IOGT) in June 1888. He died in March 1912 in Vadsø.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d "Karl Akre". Allkunne (in Norwegian). Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  2. ^ "Karl Akre" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD). Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  3. ^ Eriksen, Knut Einar; Niemi, Einar (1981). Den finske fare. Sikkerhetsproblemer og minoritetspolitikk i nord 1860–1944 (in Norwegian). Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. pp. 45–46. ISBN 82-00-05574-4.
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