Nationality Norwegian | Children Gunnar Høst | |
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Born 22 January 1866 ( 1866-01-22 ) Flora, Norway Occupation Educationalist
Textbook writer Relatives Inger Alver Gløersen (stepdaughter)
Else Høst (daughter-in-law) Died 21 August 1939, Oslo, Norway | ||
Sigurd Høst (22 January 1866 – 21 August 1939) was a Norwegian educationalist and textbook writer.
Høst was born in Flora to physician Ude Jacob Høst and Lorentze Schulrud. He was the father of philologist and literary historian Gunnar Høst, and stepfather of smallholder and writer Inger Alver Gløersen.
Høst graduated as philologist in 1891, and worked as teacher and lecturer. He served as headmaster of the Bergen Cathedral School from 1907, and of the Christiania Cathedral School from 1915. From 1921 to 1922 he lectured at the University of Sorbonne in Paris, and from 1923 to 1926 he lectured at the University of Oslo. His textbooks Lærebog i fransk for begyndere from 1896 and Franske læsestykker for gymnasiet from 1897 were used in secondary schools for more than fifty years, and he also wrote a textbook in world history which saw long-term use. Høst is also known as friend and early sales agent for the painters Nikolai Astrup and Edvard Munch.