Thomas Johannes Lauritz Parr

The couple had the son Albert Eide Parr, a noted zoologist and oceanographer who married a daughter of Peder Hansen.

[2] Parr finished Kristiania Commerce School in 1877, worked in an office for four years and from 1882 to 1883 he studied for, and took, the examen artium.

He enrolled at the Royal Frederick University, and after one year of studying theology he switched to philology and graduated with the cand.philol.

[1] He was a modern pedagogical thinker for his time, and wrote prolifically in Samtiden, Vor Ungdom and Skolebladet as well as the newspaper Bergens Tidende.

He was hired as a part-time lecturer at Bergen Museum, and from 1917 he was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.