Sophus Tromholt

In 1882 he was granted a scholarship by the Danish and Norwegian states to study the northern lights (Aurora Borealis).

During the first International Polar Year 1882/83, he established a scientific northern lights centre in Kautokeino.

[1] During his stay in Northern Norway he photographed - apart from the scientific project - the landscape and the Sami people.

His character portraits of the Sami are of high aesthetic quality artistically and as ethnographic photography.

Fifteen of the photos of the Sophus Tromholt Collection are still part of a display[2] at the University of Bergen's Stein Rokkan Building.