Frøis Frøisland, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian newspaper editor
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Place of Birth: Raufoss, Oppland, Norway
About Frøis Frøisland
- Nils Frøis Frøisland (4 February 1883 – 29 January 1930) was a Norwegian newspaper correspondent and editor. He was born in Raufoss as a son of farmer and forest owner Nils Frøisland (1851–1932) and his wife Berthe Enger (1858–1924).
- He finished his secondary education in Hamar in 1900, and then attended the Norwegian Military Academy for one year.
- He then enrolled at the Royal Frederick University and graduated with the cand.jur.
- degree in 1907.He contributed to the newspaper Fri Presse until it went defunct in 1908.
- He was hired by Amandus Schibsted as a journalist in Aftenposten.
- He studied in France for some time, returning in 1911, but he was sent back as a correspondent in December 1913.
- He was especially active during the First World War, becoming a prolific war correspondent.
- He held two nationwide lecture tours on the war in 1915 and 1919, and issued the books Fra Paris og Frankriges front under krigen (1916) and Fortellinger fra fronten (1928).
- In 1919 he succeeded Ola Christofersen as co-editor-in-chief of Aftenposten.
- He became sole editor in 1925 when Thorstein Diesen died.
- Frøisland became known for expanding the journalistic efforts of the newspaper, and starting the weekly A-magasinet.In the 1927 Norwegian parliamentary election he was fielded as the second ballot candidate for the party National Legion, behind Karl Meyer and ahead of Thorvald Aadahl and Jens Bratlie.
- In a press release, the National Legion (led by Meyer) stated that it had cherrypicked "strong" personalities to combat the hardships in Norwegian politics.
- Frøisland denounced the ballot in an Aftenposten piece, stating that himself, Aadahl and Bratlie were unwilling and unaware of the nomination.
- He stated that a vote for the National Legion would be a wasted vote in the ongoing struggle against the "communists".
- However, according to Norwegian election law the people who were listed on the ballot had no legal grounds to avoid being nominated.
- The National Legion did not win any seats. In May 1919, Frøisland married the pianist Astrid Helene Fagstad (1885–1945).
- Frøisland died in January 1930 in Oslo.
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