# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carsten-tank-nielsen
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:34:47.045Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carsten-tank-nielsen"
name: "Carsten Tank Nielsen"
slug: "carsten-tank-nielsen"
description: "Carsten Tank Nielsen was a Norwegian civil servant and government official. He was the first director of the Norwegian Telegraph from 1854 until his death in 1892. He and his wife Alvilde Olsen (1821–1890) were the parents of the historian and politician, Yngvar Nielsen."
tagline: "Norwegian civil servant (1818-1892)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carsten_Tank_Nielsen_(1818%E2%80%931892)_OB.F08296f.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
birthDate: "1818-12-18"
deathDate: "1892-08-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           30.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.267566666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carsten_Tank_Nielsen"
    title: "Carsten Tank Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carsten_Tank_Nielsen"
    title: "Carsten Tank Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carsten_Tank_Nielsen"
    title: "Carsten Tank Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carsten_Tank_Nielsen"
    title: "Carsten Tank Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carsten_Tank_Nielsen"
    title: "Carsten Tank Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carsten_Tank_Nielsen_(1818%E2%80%931892)"
    title: "Carsten Tank Nielsen (1818–1892)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5047013"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump