Ivar Mortensson-Egnund

Ivar Mortensson-Egnund was a Norwegian author, journalist, theologian, researcher, translator, writer, philosopher and advocate of nynorsk. He was born in Tynset Municipality in North Østerdalen. His parents were Anne Petronelle Tangen, and Morten Mortensen Ogarden, a former parliament member for the Liberal Party, both from Tynset Municipality. He studied theology in Christiania and got his cand. theol. in 1883. However, he did not practice as a priest before he became a diocese curate at Hamar in 1909. In 1894 he married Karen Nilsen and they farmed at Einabu in Folldal Municipality, a farm which his family had purchased in 1873.