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Biographies

Yearbooks by high school cohort:

• Availability: Denmark (DK), Norway (NO)
• Types (DK):
  • Table: Name, School, Job
  • Short text: + Birthdate/place, Studies, Career (brief)
  • Biographies: + Parents, Marriage, Career (more detail)

Note: Types can overlap, as each cohort can have multiple yearbooks (eg. books for 25th and 40th anniversary reunions). Yearbooks published later were typically more detailed (biographies rather than short text or tables).

Data

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Country	Type	Years	Transcribed	Linked
NO	(Pilot database)	1831, 1851, 1854-1870	Manual
NO	Biographies	1871-1943
DK	(Pilot database)	Selected years: 1812-1875	Manual
DK	Table	1812, 1820-1849
DK	Short text	1828-1867, 1919
DK	Biographies	1850, 1855, 1857, 1861-1923

Yearbooks by cohort

Summary: Cohorts by decade

Country	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940
Norway			1		7	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	4
Denmark					3	4	8	10	10	10	7	3
Partial	1	9	9	10	7	6	2				1

The earliest Danish yearbooks included only partial biographical information of graduates. The headline row for Denmark counts only full biographies; the ‘Partial’ row refers to the less detailed (though still relevant) tables and short text.

Detailed: Cohorts by anniversary year

Columns denote the cohort years, where the Yearbook column denotes the anniversary marked: eg. 25 years after graduation. (Scroll right to see additional years.)

Country	Yearbook	1812	…	1820	1821	1822	1823	1824	1825	1826	1827	1828	1829	1830	1831	1832	1833	1834	1835	1836	1837	1838	1839	1840	1841	1842	1843	1844	1845	1846	1847	1848	1849	1850	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860	1861	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870	1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896	1897	1898	1899	1900	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909	1910	1911	1912	1913	1914	1915	1916	1917	1918	1919	1920	1921	1922	1923	1924	1925	1926	1927	1928	1929	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934	1935	1936	1937	1938	1939	1940	1941	1942	1943
NO	25																																																			●				●	●			●	●		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●				●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
NO	30																																																																					●																															●	●	●
NO	40																																										●																											●
NO	50														●																				●			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●				●	●																●
NO	60																																																																				●
DK	25					○			○		○	○	○		○	○	○	○		○	○*	○		○	○	○		○		○	○	○	○	●	○	○	○		○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○			○		○	○	●	●			●	●	●	●		●	●		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		●		○	○	●	●		●
DK	40			○	○	○	○					○		○				○			○	○		○	○					○		○		○	○^				○			○	○	○				○	○	●					●	○											○	○		○												○									○	○
DK	50	○*				○		○	○			○	○	○				○		○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○		○	○	○	○	○			○	○	○	●	○	●		○		●	●	●	○	○	●											○			○	○		○	○		○	○																					○
DK	60																○							○																																												○

Legend: ● Full text biography ○ Summary table / short text
* The Danish graduating classes of 1812 and 1837 were celebrated in a joint yearbook, marking their 50th and 25th anniversaries respectively.
^ The Danish class of 1851 marked an anniversary 35 (not 40) years after graduation.

Additional source material

• Denmark/Norway
  • Biographies for professions (eg. doctors, public officials)
  • School yearbooks
• Sweden/Finland
  • “Nations” graduate biographies
  • University anniversary volumes (eg. 100 years of Chalmers)