Henrik Christian Fredrik Störmer ( Norwegian Henrik Christian Fredrik Størmer ; August 19, 1839 - December 29, 1900 ) - Norwegian engineer, inventor, industrialist and entrepreneur.
| Henrik Christian Fredrik Sturmer | |
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| Henrik Christian Fredrik Størmer | |
| Date of Birth | August 19, 1839 |
| Place of Birth | Trondheim , Norway |
| Date of death | December 29, 1900 (61 years old) |
| Place of death | Christiania , Norway |
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| Occupation | Physicist, engineer, inventor |
| Father | Henrik Christian Fredrik Sturmer Art. (1809–62) |
| Mother | Dorothea Margrethe Heldahl (1813–85) |
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Biography
Fredrik Störmer was born in Trondheim in the family of businessman Henrik Christian Fredrik Störmer (1809-1862) and his wife Dorothea Margrethe Heldahl (1813-1885). He was the uncle of the mathematician Karl Störmer (1874-1957), but he himself never married.
Inventive and entrepreneurial activity
After graduating from high school in his native Trondheim, Störmer moved to Karlsruhe ( Germany ) to study at a local technological institute. From 1860 to 1862 he worked as a workshop foreman at the Myrens Verksted industrial enterprise in Christiania (modern Oslo). In the late 1860s, Störmer founded two drying oil factories in Hemn and Thingwall . Soon after paraffin replaced olif in Norway, the plants had to be closed. In 1868, Störmer set up a factory in Thistedalen, which produced charcoal briquettes. Later, he patented a production method in which sawdust was used in the production of charcoal.
In the 1890s, Störmer acquired the right to own 17 waterfalls in Norway, which were planned to be used to generate electricity. In 1893–94, the commission began its work; She proposed Parliament to consider bill j, the secondment, due to which Störmer had to sell part of the waterfalls he had bought.
In the late 1870s in France, Störmer built a charcoal factory in Suren . In 1878, Störmer was appointed official representative of Norway at the World Exhibition in Paris . Upon returning to Norway in the late 1880s, Störmer began construction of pulp mills in Mosse, Ranheim and Bumble. In 1900, Sturmer died tragically under the wheels of a tram.
Participation in public debate
Sturmer was a supporter of the adoption of the European railway gauge . He wrote articles, delivered speeches in which he described its advantages and cited the shortcomings of the Cape . In turn, supporters of the latter in the person of Kato Guldberg and Karl Abraham Peel in every possible way discredit Sturmer's ideas, as a result of which the matter reached the court, which Piel and Gouldberg won, but Stormer appealed and was acquitted in 1888.
Despite the fact that Störmer himself wrote on the bookmaker , in the Norwegian language conflict he sided with the creator of Nynorsk, Ivar Osen and the organization Noregs Mållag. In his will, Störmer transferred all of his waterfalls and patents to the Det Norske Samlaget publishing house, which published literature in Nynorsk.