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Name
  
Roar Tank

Died
  
1957

Grandparents
  
Carsten Tank Nielsen

Role
  
Yngvar Nielsen's son

Parents
  
Yngvar Nielsen

Great-grandparents
  
Jacob Nielsen

Roar Tank (27 June 1880 – 29 October 1957) was a Norwegian educator and local historian.

Roar Tank was the son of the historian Yngvar Nielsen. He worked as a teacher and acting headmaster at the Latin school of Drammen. Like his father, he published many travel books, published in Norwegian, German, French, and English. He also wrote local history books about Modum and Jarlsberg and his father's biography Idyll og arbeidsar. He also wrote two chapters of Smaskrifter for bokvenner.

Works

  • Vinter i Norge (1906)
  • Under krigsfare og skattetryk (1912)
  • Jarlsberg hovedgaard og dens besiddere gjennem tiderne (1930)
  • Modums historie (1941)
  • Idyll og arbeidsar (1956)
  • References

    Roar Tank Wikipedia