Sigurd Gotaas

Sigurd Gotaas (21 December 1863 – 1944) was a Norwegian physician and sportsman.

He was born in Ullensaker.[1] Gotaas was the first vice chairman of the skiing club SK Ull from 1883 to 1885, then the second to serve as chairman from 1885 to 1887.[2] He participated in Husebyrennet, one of the main skiing events of the time. He later participated in motor sports, and was known in dog breeding circles.[3] In 1907 he founded a club for pointer breeders, Norsk Pointerklub.[4]

He graduated with the cand.med. degree in 1892. After serving briefly in Trondhjem, he was municipal physician in Nord-Aurdal from 1892 to 1895, then private physician in Lillestrøm. He eventually became municipal physician, and also physician for the garrison at Kjeller Airport.[3] In the winter of 1939–1940 he served on board a large whaler in the Southern Ocean.[5]

He died in 1944. His daughter Harda Sophie Borchgrevink Gotaas, whom he had together with Charlotte Frimann Dahl (1866–1965), married industrialist Odd Engelund.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "60 aar". Aftenposten Aften (in Norwegian). 18 December 1933. p. 2.
  2. ↑ Vaage, Jakob (1983). Skiklubben Ull 100 år 1883–1983 (in Norwegian). Oslo. pp. 7–9.
  3. 1 2 "70 år". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 21 December 1933. p. 7.
  4. ↑ "Pointerklubben leirer iår 25 års jubileum". Aftenposten Aften (in Norwegian). 15 March 1932. p. 5.
  5. ↑ "76 aar gammel læge paa hvalfangst!". Aftenposten Aften (in Norwegian). 21 September 1939. p. 4.
  6. ↑ Steenstrup, Bjørn, ed. (1973). "Engelund, Odd". Hvem er hvem? (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 131. Retrieved 26 March 2012.


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