geologist politician professor
He took the dr.philos. degree in 1907, and his best known academic work was Det centrale Norges fjeldbygning (1905). He worked for the Norwegian Geological Survey from 1889 to 1905 and the Norwegian College of Agriculture from 1898 to 1931. He reached professorship.
In the Norwegian parliamentary election, 1915 he stood as a candidate for the Liberal Party in the constituency Bærum og Follo, but lost to Christian Fredrik Michelet with only 864 out of 9,133 votes.