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Knut Gjerset was born at Fræna in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. He was the son of Ole Sørensen Gjerset and Karen Marie Olsdatter Eidem.
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Knut Gjerset was born at Fræna in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. He was the son of Ole Sørensen Gjerset and Karen Marie Olsdatter Eidem.
Gjerset attended Willmar Seminary in Willmar, Minnesota and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in literature from the University of Minnesota in 1893. Gjerset studied at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland (1895-1896) and at the University of Heidelberg (1896 to 1898) where he was awarded a PhD.
He immigrated with his family to Chippewa County, Minnesota during 1871. He held the position of principal at St. Ansgar Seminary in St. Ansgar, Iowa (1893-1895). Gjerset next worked as a principal at Glenwood Academy in Glenwood, Minnesota.
In 1902, he became a professor at Luther College. Gjerset was department head of the history department for more than thirty years and co-editor of the literary yearbook Symra (1905-1914). He served as curator of the Norwegian-American Historical Museum.He published a number of historical works, including History of the Norwegian People (1915) and.
He also served as the chairman of the committee on exhibits for the Norse-American Centennial in 1925. Luther College Faculty (1922) Luther College Through Sixty Years 1861-1921 (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House Norlie, Olaf (1925) History of the Norwegian People in America (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House).
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Married Helen Baumgarten, 1894.