The Paus family is a prominent Norwegian family with a long history of involvement in the clergy, nobility, industry, and the arts. The family first emerged as members of the elite of 16th-century Oslo and, for centuries, belonged to Norway's "aristocracy of officials," especially in the clergy and legal professions in Upper Telemark. Later generations became involved in shipping, steel, and banking. The family is particularly known for its close association with Henrik Ibsen, and for modern members like the singer Ole Paus.
The Cemetery of Our Saviour is a cemetery in Oslo, Norway, located north of Hammersborg in Gamle Aker district. It is located adjacent to the older Old Aker Cemetery and was created in 1808 as a result of the great famine and cholera epidemic of the Napoleonic Wars. Its grounds were extended in 1911. The cemetery has been full and thus closed for new graves since 1952, with interment only being allowed in existing family graves. The cemetery includes five sections, including Æreslunden, Norway's main honorary burial ground, and the western, southern, eastern and northern sections. The Cemetery of Our Saviour became the preferred cemetery of bourgeois and other upper-class families. It has many grand tombstones and is the most famous cemetery in Norway.
Erik Theodor Werenskiold was a Norwegian painter and illustrator. He is especially known for his drawings for the Asbjørnsen and Moe collection of Norske Folkeeventyr, and his illustrations for the Norwegian edition of the Snorri Sturlason Heimskringla.
Nikolai Nissen Paus was a Norwegian surgeon, hospital director and humanitarian. He was the director of Vestfold Hospital from 1918 to 1947, building and decisively shaping the institution. He served as President of the Norwegian Red Cross, President of the Norwegian Florence Nightingale Committee and chaired several governmental committees. He led and took part in the Norwegian humanitarian effort in Finland during the Winter War as the head of the Norwegian Red Cross field hospital. He also served on the executive board of the Norwegian Medical Association. He received the Order of St. Olav for his "long-standing and distinguished humanitarian work" in 1948 and was described by Aftenposten as "one of the country's preeminent physicians" on his death.
Christiania Theatre, or Kristiania Theatre, was Norway's finest stage for spoken drama from 4 October 1836 to 1 September 1899. It was located at Bankplassen by the Akershus Fortress, in central Christiania. It was the first lasting public theatre in Norway and the national stage of Norway and Oslo during the 19th century.
Adolf Wilhelm Wulf August Agthe was a Norwegian architect.
Johannes Henrik Nissen was a Norwegian architect.
Ole Hartvig Nissen was a Norwegian philologist and educator. He founded Nissen's Girls' School in Christiania in 1849. In 1865 he became director-general in the Ministry of Education, while remaining one of three joint headmasters of Nissen's Girls' School until 1872. In 1873 he was appointed to the prestigious position as rector of Oslo Cathedral School.
Jacob Benjamin Wegner was a Norwegian business magnate. He was one of the country's leading mining magnates as the director-general and co-owner of Blaafarveværket, and also had significant interests in other mining and timber companies.
Margrethe Aabel Munthe was a Norwegian teacher, children's writer, songwriter and playwright.
Johan Johannson was a Norwegian businessman.
Ole Hartvig Nissen Johannson, MBE was a Norwegian businessperson.
Bolette Margrethe Gjør, née Nissen was a Norwegian writer and inner missionary.
Ulrikke Eleonore "Rikke" Nissen was a Norwegian nursing teacher; the first female nursing teacher in Norway.
Bernhard Cathrinus Pauss was a Norwegian theologian, educator, author and humanitarian and missionary leader, who was a major figure in girls' education in Norway in his lifetime.
Theodor Christian Petersen Haagaas was a Norwegian mathematician, mathematics educator and private school owner.
The Haagaas School, or simply Haagaas, was a private gymnasium in Oslo, that existed from 1915 to 1955. It was located in Niels Juels gate 52 at Frogner, in the same building as Frogner School. The school's founder, owner and headmaster until his retirement in 1946 was Theodor Haagaas. The school was a so-called "student factory" (studentfabrikk), offering a fast track to the examen artium, in the tradition of the Heltberg School of the 19th century, and was considered the "new Heltberg." As of 1946, the school had 20 teachers, five classes and 127 students, and was entirely funded by tuition.
Frogner School was a secondary school at Frogner in Oslo, Norway.
Anna Henriette "Jette" Pauss, née Anna Henriette Wegner, was a Norwegian teacher, editor, girls' education pioneer, humanitarian and missionary leader and estate owner. With her husband Bernhard Pauss, she was a major figure in girls' education in Norway in the 19th and early 20th centuries. She served as headmistress of the country's preeminent educational institution for girls and women, Nissen's Girls' School, and was extensively involved in other schools and organizations. She was also editor of the journal Santalen and one of the key leaders of the Norwegian Santal Mission that ran schools, hospitals and social projects in India. She was the youngest daughter of mining magnate Benjamin Wegner and banking heir Henriette Wegner, and was one of the co-owners of Hafslund Manor with two of her siblings until 1894.
Aadel Lampe was a Norwegian women's rights leader, liberal politician, teacher for deaf children and suffragist in the late 19th and early 20th century. She was elected as a deputy member of the Storting in 1922, as one of the first women elected to the Norwegian parliament, and served as president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights from 1922 to 1926.
