He had been hired in the Ministry of Church and Education already in 1878, and became subdirector in 1894.
He had influence on the development of folkebogsamlinger ("people's book collections") a predecessor institution of the more modern public libraries.
In 1901 he published the book Folkebogsamlinger i Norge samt forslag til nyordning.
[1] In April 1895 in Modum he married Christiane Jeanette Aimée Dedichen.
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