Paul Steenstrup Koht

Paul Steenstrup Koht was a Norwegian educator and politician for the Liberal Party. He was the father of Halvdan Koht, a Marxist historian and Labour Party politician.

He was born in Bod, the son of Joachim Andreas Koht, a pharmacist, and Johanne Andrea Conradi. The young Koht finished secondary education in 1861 and graduated with a cand. philol. degree in 1868. Kohts biographer, Bernt A. Nissen, maintained that he developed his literary taste while studying the circle spending their leisure time in the green chamber of the Students Society had, according to Nissen, a decisive influence on Koht. In a bulletin titled Samfundsblade, Kohttogether with Sofus Arctander, Ole Furu and Hans Breckerecited Ancient Greek and Latin poems.

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