About Johan Kristian Skougaard
Lived 1847 – 1925 (aged 77–78). Johan Kristian Skougaard was a Norwegian lexicographer, linguist and politician.
Johan Kristian Skougaard (31 July 1847 – 25 September 1925) was a Norwegian military officer and politician.
He was born at Lista in Vanse Municipality, and originally took his education in the Norwegian military. He was hired as an engineer in the Norwegian Public Roads Administration in 1873, and left the military in 1887. He served as mayor of Oslo in 1905, and as director of the Norwegian Directorate of Public Roads from 1904 to 1918.
He was also a non-fiction writer, publishing the Det norske veivesens historie in two volumes, and a lexicographer, publishing a French-Norwegian dictionary in 1921. A Norwegian-French dictionary was published posthumously.
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Norwegian lexicographer (1847–1925)
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Johan Kristian Skougaard was born in 1847.
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Johan Kristian Skougaard died in 1925.
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Johan Kristian Skougaard was a lexicographer, linguist and politician.
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Johan Kristian Skougaard was Norwegian.
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