Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-10-05
Norway
Who's Who In Norway

Together with his father, Erik
Raude, he went to Greenland, and
from there in 999 he sailed to Nor
way, where he became member
of the Royal Guard of Olav Trygg-
vason and adopted Christianity. In
the spring of 1000 he set out for
Greenland again, was driven out of
course and came to a land where
there were "self-sowed fields and
where vines grew" The country
was named Vinland by him, and is
supposed to have been part of the
east coast of North America. From
here Lew in the autumn returned
to Greenland. 1t is doubtful wheth-
er serious attempts at colonization
were ever made by Left or his fol-
lowers.
LIE, Marius SOphus, b. 1912, d.
1899, mathematician. Was educat-
ed at the University of Christiania
(Oslo). In 1869 he published his
theory on imaginary numbers, and
the same year went abroad with a
state scholarship. 1871 he was ap-
pointed assistant professor at the
Chr. a. University, and submitted
his famous treatise for his doctors
degree: Uber Complexe, insbeson-
dere LINEN und Kugel-CompleXe,
init Anwendung auf die Theorie
partieller ial-Gleichungen,
in which he advanced the theory
of tangential transformations. In
1S72-18S6 he was made extraordin-
airy professor, and during these
years he carried out research on
continuous transformation groups,
and discovered the transformation,
named after him, wherein the
sphere corresponds to the straight
line. In 1885 Lie was appointed
professor of mathematics at Leip-
zig, where his Theorie der Trans
formationsgruppen (16SS-93), a
work of wide range and great or
iginality, was published. In 1898
he returned to Christiania to ac-
cept special post created for him,
but his health was already broken,
and he died year later.
LIE, Trygve, b. 1877, 1896, gen.
eral secretary of U. N. Graduated
as a student in 1914 and 5 years
later he completed his studies of
law. 1919 he was appointed secre-
tary of the Norwegian Labour
Party, of which he has been a
member since 1912. 1925 he
was legal adviser of the Norweg-
ian Trade Union Federation, and
from 1859 minister of Justice.
In the autumn of 1889 he became
the head of the new-established
Ministry of Supplies. Together
with King and Government he left
Norway on the 18th of June 1910,
and worked in London as Minister
of Foreign Affairs. During his
stay in England he did a great deal
of work for Norway in close
cooperation with the other Allied
governments. After the liberation
of Norway he worked for a short
time as Minister of Foreign At
fairs in Gerhardsen's labour gov
eminent until on February Isl,
1916 he was appointed general sec
rotary of the United Nations.
MATHISEN, Oscar, b. 4-1O, 1888,
the greatest speed skater Of the
world. Made a sensational debut
in the skating elite of the world
at the age of II, won his first
Norwegian championship and at Is
was world champion the following
year. In his career he won Nor
wegian. European and 5 world
championships in the years 19O7-15
and set IA worlds records. His
best records, for the 500, 1000.
1900 and 10000 m survived all at
tacks from the best skaters of the
world for IA. 81, % and Is years
respectively.
oscar Mathisen became a pro-
fessional in 1916 and toured the
USA with moderate success. PROB
ably mainly due to unfamiliarity
with small American indoor Kinks.
In a match for the professional
world championship in Oslo in
1920. he beat the U. S. champion
Bobby Mclean decisively. Mathi-
sen was also an excellent eyclist