Background
He was born in Bergen as a son of tanner Ole Dominicus Danielsen (1863–1941) and Gesine Gauslaa (1866–1964), and brother of the dean Lars Johan Danbolt and professor Niels Danbolt.
He was born in Bergen as a son of tanner Ole Dominicus Danielsen (1863–1941) and Gesine Gauslaa (1866–1964), and brother of the dean Lars Johan Danbolt and professor Niels Danbolt.
He finished his secondary education in 1924 and took the candidate.theol. He studied abroad from 1931 to 1932.
Degree at the University of Oslo in 1930. He joined the mission in Madagascar in 1931. He returned to Norway to lecture at various theological schools.
In 1947 he took the dr.theol. degree with the thesis Misjonstankens gjennombrudd i Norge.
From 1948 to 1954 he was again a teacher in Fianarantsoa. He edited the local Lutheran magazine from 1948 to 1950, and issued several books in both Malagasy and Norwegian.
In 1955 he was appointed as an acting docent at the MF Norwegian School of Theology, before he became a curate at Majorstuen in 1957. From 1969 he was a professor and rector of the National Lawyers Association University College, until he retired in 1974.
He died in September 2002 and was buried at Vestre gravlund.
He was a board member of the Norwegian Association of Clergy from 1965 to 1966.