Matthias Wilhelm Sinding (18 July 1811 – 11 February 1860) was a Norwegian mining engineer and factory founder.
He was born in Fredrikstad as a son of Ulrik Rosing Sinding and Mette Marie Bang. [1] He was a distant relative of Hans Rosing (1625–1699).
Fredrikstad is a city and municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Fredrikstad.
Hans Rosing was a Norwegian clergyman. He served as Bishop of the Diocese of Oslo from 1664 until 1699.
In May 1841 in Kongsberg he married Cecilie Marie Mejdell (1817–1886), a sister of Nicolai and Thorvald Mejdell [1] and an aunt of Glør Thorvald Mejdell. [2] They had three notable children; Christian, Otto and Stephan Sinding. Christian was a composer, Otto a painter and Stephan a sculptor. Through Otto he was the paternal grandfather of painter Sigmund Sinding, and through his own brother and sister he was an uncle of Alfred Sinding-Larsen and the three siblings Ernst Anton Henrik Sinding, Elisabeth Sinding and Gustav Adolf Sinding. [3]
Kongsberg is a town and municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. Kongsberg is the administration center in Kongsberg municipality. The city is located on the river Numedalslågen at the entrance to the valley of Numedal. The municipality of Kongsberg was established on 1 January 1838. The rural municipalities of Ytre Sandsvær and Øvre Sandsvær were merged into the municipality of Kongsberg on 1 January 1964.
Christian Henrik Nicolai Mejdell was a Norwegian mining engineer.
Thorvald Mejdell was a Norwegian forester.
He finished his secondary education as a private candidate in 1831, then graduated in mining from the Royal Frederick University in 1835. He worked for the Royal Norwegian Mint in Kongsberg from 1836 to 1841. He remained at Kongsberg until 1844, when he assumed a position as mine superintendent in Central and Northern Norway. He contributed to the change in sulphuric acid factories, from the use of sulphur to the use of pyrite as a raw material. He founded his own sulphuric acid factory Lysaker Kemiske Fabrik in 1859, but died in February 1860 in Lillehammer. [1]
The University of Oslo, until 1939 named the Royal Frederick University, is the oldest university in Norway, located in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. Until 1 January 2016 it was the largest Norwegian institution of higher education in terms of size, now surpassed only by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The Academic Ranking of World Universities has ranked it the 58th best university in the world and the third best in the Nordic countries. In 2015, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked it the 135th best university in the world and the seventh best in the Nordics. While in its 2016, Top 200 Rankings of European universities, the Times Higher Education listed the University of Oslo at 63rd, making it the highest ranked Norwegian university.
The mineral pyrite (/ˈpaɪraɪt/), or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2 (iron(II) disulfide). Pyrite is considered the most common of the sulfide minerals.
Lillehammer is a town and municipality in Oppland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. As of 2018, the population of the town of Lillehammer was 28 034. The city centre is a late nineteenth-century concentration of wooden houses, which enjoys a picturesque location overlooking the northern part of lake Mjøsa and the river Lågen, surrounded by mountains. Lillehammer hosted the 1994 Winter Olympics and 2016 Winter Youth Olympics. Before Oslo's withdrawal from consideration, it was included as part of a bid to host events in the 2022 Winter Olympics if Oslo were to win the rights to hold the Games.
