Reidar Rye Haugan

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Reidar Rye Haugan (September 18, 1893 – October 1972) was an American newspaper editor and publisher.

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Background

Reidar Rye Haugan was born the youngest of eight children born in Trondheim, Norway. [1] Together with his mother and sister, Haugan immigrated to the United States at 21 years of age, arriving in New York City on April 3, 1915. [2]

Trondheim City in Norway

Trondheim is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It has a population of 193,501, and is the third-most populous municipality in Norway, although the fourth largest urban area. Trondheim lies on the south shore of Trondheim Fjord at the mouth of the River Nidelva. The city is dominated by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), the Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research (SINTEF), St. Olavs University Hospital and other technology-oriented institutions.

Career

Initially Haugan had worked for the editorial staff of the Norwegian language newspaper Skandinaven in Chicago. Dating from 1866, Skandinaven had once been the one of largest Norwegian language newspapers within the United States. In 1939, Haugan followed Nicolai A. Grevstad as editor of Skandinaven. When Skandinaven suspended publication in 1941, Haugan established the Norwegian language newspaper Viking on which he served as both editor and publisher. In 1958, Norwegian-American journalist and author Bertram Jensenius (1898-1976), who came to the United States in 1922, took over Viking, renamed it Vinland and published it until his death in 1976. [3]

Norwegian language North Germanic language spoken in Norway

Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken mainly in Norway, where it is the official language. Along with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a dialect continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional varieties, and some Norwegian and Swedish dialects, in particular, are very close. These Scandinavian languages, together with Faroese and Icelandic as well as some extinct languages, constitute the North Germanic languages. Faroese and Icelandic are hardly mutually intelligible with Norwegian in their spoken form because continental Scandinavian has diverged from them. While the two Germanic languages with the greatest numbers of speakers, English and German, have close similarities with Norwegian, neither is mutually intelligible with it. Norwegian is a descendant of Old Norse, the common language of the Germanic peoples living in Scandinavia during the Viking Era.

Skandinaven was a Norwegian language newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois from 1866 until 1941.

Chicago City in Illinois, United States

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the most populous city in Illinois, as well as the third most populous city in the United States. With an estimated population of 2,716,450 (2017), it is the most populous city in the Midwest. Chicago is the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland, and the county seat of Cook County, the second most populous county in the United States. The metropolitan area, at nearly 10 million people, is the third-largest in the United States, and the fourth largest in North America.

Reidar Haugan was also a director and playwright. In 1944, the Chicago Norwegian Theatre (Norwegian:Norske Teater) presented one of his more famous works, Norway Waits (Norwegian:Norge Venter) . Together with his wife Hermana Rye Haugan, he was a leader of American Relief for Norway in Chicago, which provided assistance to the nation and people of Norway during and after World War II. [4] [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Census year: 1900. Municipality: Trondheim (Norwegian Historical Data Centre)
  2. ↑ Kristianiafjord. Bergen to New York (The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.)
  3. ↑ Skandinaven and the John Anderson Publishing Company(by Jean Skogerboe Hansen. Norwegian-American Historical Association. Volume 28: Page 35) Archived 2008-08-08 at the Wayback Machine .
  4. ↑ American Relief For Norway. A Survey of American Relief Work For Norway During and After The Second World War (Andreas Nilsen Rygg, Chicago, Ill:Arnesen Press. 1947)
  5. ↑ Haugan, Hermana Rye (Charlotte Jacobson. Norwegian-American Historical Association. Volume 28: Page 342)

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