August Nielsen

[1] August Nielsen was born in the village of Vik in Sømna Municipality in Nordland, Norway.

He was a son of politician Sivert Nielsen (1823–1904) and Jonethe Cornelia Falck Heide (1833–1927).

[2][3][4] Nielsen attended Trondheim Technical College (now Norwegian University of Science and Technology) from 1893 to 1897, and spent the next years as an assistant of architects including Bredo Greve as well as Andreas Bugge, Heinrich Jürgensen and Ingvar Hjorth.

He is most associated with the Deichman Library at Schous plass and the entrance portal at Frogner stadion (both 1914).

Among their works were Majorstuen Church, Fredrikstad Library (both finished in 1926) and the diocesan seat in Tromsø (1924).