11 Facts About Oscar Nissen

Elias Gottlieb Oscar Egede Nissen was a Norwegian physician, newspaper editor and politician.

Oscar Nissen belonged to the Norwegian Labour Party from 1889 to his death, and was both party leader, party secretary as well as editor of the party organ Social-Demokraten for a period.

Oscar Nissen made his mark as a campaigner for temperance and better health conditions.

Oscar Nissen's father had migrated from Holstein to Norway in 1825, and his mother was born at Falster.

The marriage lasted from 1874 to 1895, and they had a daughter, Erika Oscar Nissen-Lie, born in 1878, and a son, Karl Oscar Nissen, born in 1879.

Since 1876 Oscar Nissen was a supporter of the temperance movement, and from 1884 to 1890 he edited the temperance magazine Menneskevennen.

Oscar Nissen retired from the organization as the 1887 national convention would not support his proposition on prohibition.

Oscar Nissen worked in Kristiania from 1884 as a specialist in women's diseases.

Oscar Nissen was lambasted by activist Ragna Nielsen, who tried, unsuccessfully, to channel her protest through the recently established Norwegian Association for Women's Rights.

Oscar Nissen was the editor-in-chief of the party organ Social-Demokraten from 1894 to 1897, and served as the party secretary during the same period.

Oscar Nissen was a member of Kristiania city council from 1898 to 1907.