Background
He was born in Fredrikstad as a son of Ulrik Rosing Sinding and Mette Marie Bang.
He was born in Fredrikstad as a son of Ulrik Rosing Sinding and Mette Marie Bang.
University of Oslo.
He was a distant relative of Hans Rosing (1625–1699). They had three notable children. Christian, Otto and Stephan Sinding.
Christian was a composer, Otto a painter and Stephan a sculptor.
He finished his secondary education as a private candidate in 1831, then graduated in mining from the Royal Frederick University in 1835. He worked for the Royal Norwegian Mint in Kongsberg from 1836 to 1841.
He remained at Kongsberg until 1844, when he assumed a position as mine superintendent in Central and Northern Norway. He contributed to the change in sulphuric acid factories, from the use of sulphur to the use of pyrite as a raw material.
He founded his own sulphuric acid factory Lysaker Kemiske Fabrik in 1859, but died in February 1860 in Lillehammer.