Sophus Tromholt
Sami girls Kautokeino
1882/ 1883. Photographer Sophus Tromholt.Sophus Tromholt (2 June 1851 – 17 May 1896) was a
Aurora Borealis). During the first International Polar Year 1882/83, he established a scientific northern lights centre in Kautokeino. His Northern lights studies pioneered the modern Northern lights science. In 2013 UNESCO'S Memory of the World Register included the Sophus Tromholt Collection.[1]
Photo collection
During his stay in Northern
Sami people. His character portraits of the Sami are of high aesthetic quality artistically and as ethnographic photography. The photo collection is owned by the University of Bergen Library, Special collections, and consists of 231 glass negatives and 189 albumen prints
in a portfolio: Sophus Tromholt: Billeder fra Lappernes Land. Tableaux du Pays des Lapons. 1883.
Legacy
Fifteen of the photos of the Sophus Tromholt Collection are still part of a display[2] at the University of Bergen's Stein Rokkan Building.[3] (The display is at the street level of the building's facade, since 2013.)
Biography
- Tromholt, Sophus: Under the rays of the Aurora Borealis. London 1885
- Larsen, Peter og Lien, Sigrid: Norsk Fotohistorie. Fra daguerrotypi til digitalisering. 2007. (Norwegian history of photography. From digitising.)
- Moss, Kira and Stauning, Peter: "Sophus Peter Tromholt: an outstanding pioneer in auroral research", Hist. Geo Space Sci., 3, 53-72, 2012. doi:10.5194/hgss-3-53-2012.
- Stauning, Peter: "Danish auroral science history", Hist. Geo Space Sci., 2, 1-28, 2011. doi:10.5194/hgss-2-1-2011. www.hist-geo-space-sci.net/2/1/2011/
References
- ^ Memory of the World
- ^ "Arven etter samene". Bergens Tidende. 2014-03-01. Archived from the original on 2015-01-01.
- ^ University of Bergen
External links
- Works by or about Sophus Tromholt at Internet Archive
- Norsk fotosamling tatt opp i Verdens dokumentarv
- The Picture Collection, University of Bergen Library
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