Reidar Thoralf Christiansen
Norwegian folklorist, archivist and academic
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Reidar Thoralf Christiansen was a Norwegian folklorist, archivist of the Norwegian Folklore Collection and professor of folkloristics at the University of Oslo. Biography Christiansen studied theology during 1904–1909 and worked as a language teacher for Finnish and Sami for priest sent to Finnmark, but he was not himself ordained as a priest. Instead, he took an interest in folkloristics under the guidance of Moltke Moe . He received a scholarship for a half-year's stay in Finland in 1912, where he studied under Kaarle Krohn . During 1914–1916 he studied in Copenhagen, studying under Axel Olrik . He also visited Lund University and studied under Carl Wilhelm von Sydow .
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