Sigurd Gotaas

Sigurd Gotaas (21 December 1863 – 1944) was a Norwegian physician and sportsman.

He was born in Ullensaker.[1] Gotaas was the first vice chairman of the skiing club SK Ull from 1883 to 1885, then the second to serve as chairman from 1885 to 1887.[2] He participated in Husebyrennet, one of the main skiing events of the time. He later participated in motor sports, and was known in dog breeding circles.[3] In 1907 he founded a club for pointer breeders, Norsk Pointerklub.[4]

He graduated with the cand.med. degree in 1892. After serving briefly in Trondhjem, he was municipal physician in Nord-Aurdal from 1892 to 1895, then private physician in Lillestrøm. He eventually became municipal physician, and also physician for the garrison at Kjeller Airport.[3] In the winter of 1939–1940 he served on board a large whaler in the Southern Ocean.[5]

He died in 1944. His daughter Harda Sophie Borchgrevink Gotaas, whom he had together with Charlotte Frimann Dahl (1866–1965), married industrialist Odd Engelund.[6]

References
  1. "60 aar". Aftenposten Aften (in Norwegian). 18 December 1933. p. 2.
  2. Vaage, Jakob (1983). Skiklubben Ull 100 år 1883–1983 (in Norwegian). Oslo. pp. 7–9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. "70 år". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 21 December 1933. p. 7.
  4. "Pointerklubben leirer iår 25 års jubileum". Aftenposten Aften (in Norwegian). 15 March 1932. p. 5.
  5. "76 aar gammel læge paa hvalfangst!". Aftenposten Aften (in Norwegian). 21 September 1939. p. 4.
  6. Steenstrup, Bjørn, ed. (1973). "Engelund, Odd". Hvem er hvem? (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 131. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
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