Haakon Nyhuus

Haakon Nyhuus (28 November 1866 – December 1913) was a Norwegian librarian and encyclopedist.

[1] Haakon Nyhuus was born in Trysil in Hedmark, Norway as the son of Ole Olsen Nyhuus (1827–1874) who was mayor of Trysil and a Member of Parliament from Hedmark.

He returned Christiania (now Oslo) in 1885 to become a student at the Otto Anderssens skole.

He was chief editor of the six-volume encyclopedia Aschehougs Illustreret norsk Konversationsleksikon, published from 1906 to 1913.

He also introduced Dewey Decimal Classification into the library system of Norway.