11 Facts About Nicolai Rygg

Nicolai Theodorius Nilssen Rygg was a Norwegian economist and Governor of the Central Bank of Norway.

Nicolai Rygg was born in Stavanger as a son of shoemaker Ole Nilssen Rygg and Ane Severine Larsdatter.

Nicolai Rygg was a brother of journalist Andreas Nilsen Rygg.

Nicolai Rygg finished his secondary education in 1889, and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the cand.

Nicolai Rygg was a deputy judge in Vesteralen District Court before studying economics in Gottingen and Geneve in 1896 to 1897, later statistics in the United States from 1904 to 1905.

Nicolai Rygg worked in Statistics Norway from 1898, and from 1907 he doubled as secretary in Statistics Norway and research fellow at the Royal Frederick University.

Nicolai Rygg was regarded as an active financial politician, and as being a more independent bank governor than his successors.

Nicolai Rygg is known for pressuring opposition leader Johan Ludwig Mowinckel to file a vote of no confidence against the socialist Hornsrud's Cabinet in February 1928.

Nicolai Rygg released Norges Bank i mellomkrigstiden in 1950 and Norges Banks historie.

Nicolai Rygg was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Nicolai Rygg was decorated as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star and the Order of the White Rose of Finland, and Commander of the Order of St Olav, the Order of the Dannebrog, the Order of Vasa, the Order of the Falcon and the Order of the Nile.