Halvdan Koht
Halvdan Koht was a Norwegian historian and politician representing the Labour Party.
Halvdan Koht was born onAugust 1873 in Troms, one of the larger cities in Northern Norway. He was the second of four children born to Paul Steenstrup Koht , an educator and politician, and Betty Giver , a parttime teacher with a penchant for singing, languages and drawing. Bettys antecedents were mixed she was maternally descended from Northern Germany, yet on her fathers side she was of Norwegian origina distinguished forebear on that side was her greatgrandfather, the civil servant Jens Holmboe from Troms. Through the offspring of his maternal granduncle, Halvdan Koht was a third cousin of the parliamentarian Ola Krogseng Giver. In Paul Kohts lineage, Kjeld Stub was a distant ancestor. The name Koht stems from German immigrants to Norway in the 17th century.
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