Otto Treider in 1916

Otto Halfdan Treider (October 6, 1856 – April 6, 1928) was a Norwegian educator and preacher.[1]

Treider was born in Drøbak.[1] He founded the Otto Treider Business School (Otto Treiders handelsskole, now Treider College) in 1882.[1][2] The institution soon became Norway's largest and leading business school.

As a preacher, Treider supported the Free Church movement[3] and led a group known as the Treider Circle.[4] In 1891 he built the Calmeyer Street Mission House in Oslo.[1][5]

Treider died in Oslo.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Store norske leksikon: Otto Treider.
  2. ↑ Rust, Val D. 1989. The Democratic Tradition and the Evolution of Schooling in Norway. New York: Greenwood Press, p. 156.
  3. ↑ Austad, Torleiv. 2013. Ole Hallesby (1879–1961). In: Mark Mattes (ed.), Twentieth-Century Lutheran Theologians, pp. 70–92. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, p. 71.
  4. ↑ Hale, Frederick. 1993. Insights from Norwegian "Revivalism," 1875–1914. In: Edith L. Blumhofer & Randall Balmer (eds.), Modern Christian Revivals, pp. 101–117. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, p. 107.
  5. ↑ Thorvaldsen, Johannes. 1964. Kristenliv i Østfold og Akershus: festskrift for Oslo krets. Bergen: Lunde, p. 374.
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