page_title: Theodor Haagaas
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Theodor Haagaas / Career
caption_attribution_description: Norsk bokmål: Frogner skole, Niels Juels gate 52 (tidligere Gjertsens Privatskole). Bygd 1899. Arkitekter: Ove Ekman og Einar Smith.
context_page_description: Theodor Christian Petersen Haagaas was a Norwegian mathematician and private school owner. He was a co-owner of Frogner School and Nissen's Girls' School and founder, owner and headmaster of the Haagaas School, a private gymnasium at Frogner, Oslo that existed 1915–1955. He is also known for the widely used Haffner og Haagaas series of textbooks in mathematics, which was published between 1925 and 1979 in numerous editions. He received the King's Medal of Merit in Gold in 1949.
context_section_description: He attended the Frederikshald Gymnasium and graduated with the examen artium university entrance exam in 1891. He subsequently studied philosophy and natural sciences at the Royal Frederick University. He also served in the Royal Norwegian Navy 1897–1902 as a deputy intendant (lieutenant in the logistics officer corps).
  He was employed as a lecturer in mathematics at the private gymnasium Frogner School in Oslo in 1900, and was a co-owner of both Frogner School and its neighbour, the Nissen's Girls' School, from 1913 to 1918. He was the founder, owner and headmaster of the Haagaas School, a private gymnasium in Oslo that existed from 1915 to 1955. Haagaas School was the last school in Norway in the tradition of the Heltberg School of the 19th century, offering a fast track to the examen artium (a so-called studentfabrikk, "student factory"), and was described by Mosse Jørgensen as "the new Heltberg [school]." According to his former pupil Harald Throne-Holst, Haagaas was characterized by a "strong and active sense of humor."
  He was a co-author and subsequently the sole author of the Haffner og Haagaas series of textbooks in mathematics, which was published between 1925 and 1979 in numerous editions. Upon his death he was described by Aftenposten as one of the most well known Norwegian educators in his lifetime.
caption: The shared building of Frogner School and Haagaas School at Frogner, Oslo
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