Sigurd Bødtker

He was born in Trondhjem as a son of physician Fredrik Waldemar Bødtker (1824-1901) and Sophie Jenssen (1830-1898).

[5] He finished his secondary education in 1884, and enrolled in law studies at the University of Kristiania.

Then, after a period in Verdens Gang he followed Olaf Thommessen to the new newspaper Tidens Tegn.

Bødtker did work as a secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture from 1900 to 1903, but then became a full-time theatre critic—Norway's first.

[1] His critic pieces were later published in three volumes, the first two by Einar Skavlan in 1923 and 1924 and the last by Anton Rønneberg in 1929.