Olav Rytter

Male, Deceased Person

1903 – 1992

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Who was Olav Rytter?

Olav Rytter was a Norwegian newspaper editor, radio personality, foreign correspondent, philologist and translator.

He was born in Kristiansund as the son of writer Henrik Rytter. He took his philological education at the University of Oslo and the University of Prague, having specialized in Slavic and Indic languages. He would translate several works written in such languages. After working as a teacher in the Norwegian language in Prague and Warsaw, from 1928 to 1935, he returned to Norway in 1935 to edit the newspaper Norsk Tidend.

From 1938 to 1946 he was a programme secretary in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. When Norway was invaded by Germany in April 1940, Rytter fled the country together with the Norwegian royal family and cabinet. After a short period in Stockholm he reunited with the Norwegian authorities-in-exile in London, where he worked for the NRK and BBC until 1944. He received basic military training, in Scotland. He has also been credited with suggesting Martin Linge as an SOE agent in the fall of 1940. In 1944 Rytter travelled to Finnmark to oversee the liberation of Northern Norway as an officer of information. Norway was fully liberated on 8 May 1945.

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Born
Jan 29, 1903
Died
1992

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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