page_title: Alf Collett
hierarchical_section_title: Alf Collett
context_page_description: Alf Collett was a Norwegian writer and historian.
  Alf Collett was born at Eidsvoll in Akershus, Norway. He attended Oslo Cathedral School. He was the second son of professor Peter Jonas Collett and Camilla Collett. His maternal uncles included Oscar and Henrik Wergeland, and his paternal uncles included Peter Severin Steenstrup. He had one older brother Robert, a notable zoologist, and two younger brothers. He married Mathilda Sophie Kallevig, but they did not have any children.
  He published many historical and genealogical works, the most important being En gammel Christiania-slægt. Optegnelser om familien Collett og Christianias fortid and Gamle Christiania-Billeder.
context_section_description: Alf Collett (8 August 1844-12  June 1919) was a Norwegian writer and historian. 
  Alf Collett was born at Eidsvoll in Akershus, Norway. He attended Oslo Cathedral School. He was the second son of professor Peter Jonas Collett (1813-1851)  and Camilla Collett (1813-1895). His maternal uncles included Oscar and Henrik Wergeland, and his paternal uncles included Peter Severin Steenstrup. He had one older brother Robert, a notable zoologist, and two younger brothers. He married Mathilda Sophie Kallevig (1845-1915), but they did not have any children.
  He published many historical and genealogical works, the most important being En gammel Christiania-slægt. Optegnelser om familien Collett og Christianias fortid (1883) and Gamle Christiania-Billeder (1893).
caption: Painting of Alf Collett by Asta Nørregaard from 1915
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