18 Facts About Gustav Natvig-Pedersen

Gustav Natvig-Pedersen was a Norwegian philologist, educator and politician for the Labour Party.

Gustav Natvig-Pedersen was born in Stavanger as a son of sailmaker Johan Pedersen and his wife Johanne Christine Natvig.

Gustav Natvig-Pedersen briefly attended the Norwegian Military Academy, but graduated with the cand.

Gustav Natvig-Pedersen was a standing military officer, and held the rank Premier Lieutenant from 1920.

Gustav Natvig-Pedersen was elected to Stavanger city council for the first time in 1922, and was re-elected successively throughout the rest of the interwar period.

Gustav Natvig-Pedersen chaired his local party chapter from 1925 to 1926 and 1935 to 1936, and was a member of the Labour Party national board from 1936 to 1939.

Gustav Natvig-Pedersen was board chairman of the local party newspaper Den 1ste Mai from 1927 to 1936.

Gustav Natvig-Pedersen was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from the Market towns of Vest-Agder and Rogaland counties in 1936.

Gustav Natvig-Pedersen was one of the people behind the orthographic reform of 1938, which implemented a converge between Nynorsk and Bokmal.

Gustav Natvig-Pedersen issued the orthographic dictionary Norsk rettskrivingsordliste in 1938 together with August Lange; the book was reprinted ten times.

Gustav Natvig-Pedersen was first arrested in March 1942 for boycotting the Nazi creation, the Teachers Union, together with a large number of other teachers, including Kjell Bondevik.

Gustav Natvig-Pedersen was then released, only to be arrested again on 8 March 1943.

Gustav Natvig-Pedersen was re-elected to Parliament twice; in 1945 and 1949.

Gustav Natvig-Pedersen spent the rest of his professional career as headmaster at St Svithuns School, having left Stavanger Cathedral School in 1946.

Gustav Natvig-Pedersen was a board member of Stavanger Museum from 1935 to 1958 and chair from 1958 to 1965, deputy board member of the Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture from 1947 to 1950, board member of Rogaland Teater from 1953 to 1965 and chair of FK Vidar.

Gustav Natvig-Pedersen was a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee from 1948 to 1965, and held a few industrial positions: member of the Vest-Agder and Rogaland railway committee from 1938 to 1959 and chair of Norsk Jernverk from 1946 to 1964.

Gustav Natvig-Pedersen was a Knight of the Monegasque Princeps et Patria order from 1950.

Gustav Natvig-Pedersen retired as a headmaster in 1962, and left Stavanger city council in 1964.