Werner Werenskiold

Werner Werenskiold (28 April 1883 – 2 August 1961) was a Norwegian geologist and geographer.

Personal life Born in Paris on 28 April 1883, Werenskiold was a son of painter and illustrator Erik Werenskiold and visual artist Sophie Marie Stoltenberg Thomesen (1849–1926). He was a brother of Dagfin Werenskiold, and a nephew of Fernanda Nissen.

He lived and died in Bærum, and was on the election ballot for the Liberal People's Party (formerly the Liberal Left Party) in the 1930s.

The mountain of Werenskioldfjellet at Hopen, Svalbard is named after him. The glacier of Werenskioldbreen in Wedel Jarlsberg Land, Svalbard is also named after him.

Bibliography (in selection) Text to geological map of the region between Sætersdalen and Ringerike, Norges geologiske undersøkelse no. 66, 1912 Norges fysiske og økonomiske geografi for gymnasiet (sm.m. E. Haffner), 1912 (8'th issue 1936) Tekst til geologisk oversiktskart over det sydlige Norge. Maalestok 1:1 000 000, Norges geologiske undersøkelse no. 70, 1914, pp. 13–35 Mean Monthly Air Transport over the North Pacific Ocean, dr.avh., Geofysiske Publikasjoner, vol. 2 no. 9, 1922 Fysisk geografi, 2 bd., 1925–43 (issue 1: Geofysikk, meteorologi, oseanografi, 1925, bd. 2: Landkarter, landjordens form, 1943) Geografi, tiltredelsesforelesning, in NGT 1927, pp. 1–9 Jorden, dets land og folk, 2 bd., 1931–34 Norge vårt land, 2 bd., 1936–41 (4'th issue in 3 bd., 1957) Jord, vann, luft, ild. Fysisk geografi for hvermann, 1952 Jorden vår klode (sm.m. T. Width), 2 bd., 1956