Ivar Mortensson-Egnund

Ivar Mortensson-Egnund (originally Ivar Julius Mortensen and also referred to as Ivar Matlaus; 24 July 1857 – 16 February 1934) was a Norwegian author, journalist, theologian, researcher, translator, writer, philosopher and advocate of nynorsk (the new Norwegian language). He was born in Tynset Municipality (now part in Alvdal Municipality) in North Østerdalen. His parents were Anne Petronelle Tangen, and Morten Mortensen Ogarden, a former parliament member for the Liberal Party, both from Tynset Municipality. He studied theology in Christiania and got his cand. theol. in 1883. However, he did not practice as a priest before he became a diocese curate at Hamar in 1909. In 1894 he married Karen Nilsen and they farmed at Einabu in Folldal Municipality, a farm which his family had purchased in 1873.