Knut Gjerset
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Knut Gjerset as a Norwegian-American author and historian. He was a professor at Luther College
and served as curator of the Norwegian-American Historical Museum.
Luther College (Iowa)
Luther College is a four-year, residential liberal arts institution of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, located in Decorah, Iowa, USA...
and served as curator of the Norwegian-American Historical Museum.
Selected works
- English Grammar (1908)
- Brændevinssamla gene og avholdsarbeidet i Norge (1911)
- History of the Norwegian People. Two Volumes (1915)
- Luther College Museum (1923)
- John Martin Kalberlahn (1924)
- History of Iceland (1924)
- Health conditions and the practice of medicine among the early Norwegian settlers, 1825-1865. with Dr. Ludvig Hektoen (1926)
- Norwegian-American Studies and Records. with Theodore C. BlegenTheodore C. BlegenTheodore Christian Blegen was an American historian and author. Theodore Blegen was the author of numerous historic reference books, papers and articles written over a five decade period...
, Kristian PrestgardKristian PrestgardKristian Prestgard was an author and the editor of Decorah-Posten from 1923 until 1946.-Background:Kristian Prestgard was born in Heidal in Kristians Amt, Norway. His parents were Gudbrand Kristensen Harelstad and Marit Prestgard . When his father died early, Kristian moved with his mother back...
, and Laurence M. Larson (1927) - Norwegian-American Historical Museum ( 1929)
- Norwegian Sailors on the Great Lakes (1933)
Other sources
- The Luther College Faculty Luther College Through Sixty Years 1861-1921 (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House. 1922)
- Norlie, OlafOlaf M. NorlieOlaf Morgan Norlie , also referred to as O. M. Norlie, was a Lutheran minister, educator and scholar. He was a prolific author who is most remembered as the translator of the Simplified New Testament.-Background:...
History of the Norwegian People in America (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House. 1925)