Knut Olai Bjørlykke

Who was Knut Olai Bjørlykke?

Knut Olai Knutsen Bjørlykke was a Norwegian geologist and sedimentologist.

He was born in Sandøy. He was the father of Harald Bjørlykke and through him a grandfather of Arne Bjørlykke.

He took the dr.philos. degree in 1907, and his best known academic work was Det centrale Norges fjeldbygning. He worked for the Norwegian Geological Survey from 1889 to 1905 and the Norwegian College of Agriculture from 1898 to 1931. He reached professorship.

In the Norwegian parliamentary election, 1915 he stood as a candidate for the Liberal Party in the constituency Bærum og Follo, but lost to Christian Fredrik Michelet with only 864 out of 9,133 votes.