Carl Nicolai Stoud Platou
Carl Nicolai Stoud Platou (26 June 1809 – 11 September 1888) was a Norwegian civil servant and politician.
Personal life
He was born in Christiania as a son of educator, professor, politician and State Secretary Ludvig Stoud Platou (1749–1815) and his wife Karen Lumholtz (1785–1833). He was a maternal grandson of Nicolai Lumholtz and brother of Frederik Christian Stoud Platou, and through the latter an uncle of Oscar Ludvig Stoud Platou.[1]
In August 1838 in
Career
He took his
Platou laid down a sizeable amount of work for Bergen city. He was a board member of
He was a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters from 1849, and wrote extensively. He reissued his father's textbook Udtog af Geographien for Begyndere seven times, the last in 1862.[1] He died on 11 September 1888 in Bergen.
References
- ^ a b c d e f Fossen, Anders Bjarne. "Carl Platou – 1". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian) (2nd ed.). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
- ^ "Carl Nicolai Stoud Platou" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD). Retrieved 11 August 2010.