Fridtjof Nansen
Photo: Jan Dalsgaard Sørensen
  Ambassador
After Norway became independent of Sweden in 1905, Nansen became Norway's first envoy to the United Kingdom, living in London from 1906 to 1908.
His ambassador's uniform is still preserved at Polhøgda.
 

The Nansen Passport
In 1921, Nansen devised the Nansen Passport, an identy card for stateless refugees. The document was recognized by many European states, and helped hundreds of thousands of stateless people to immigrate to a country willing to receive them.
This specimen was issued by Bulgarian authorities in 1928 to Russian refugee Pavel Kiprianovitch Kastorny, and enabled him to travel to France to start a new life there.

 

Map of Spitsbergen
Also in his later years, Nansen never lost his interest in the North and in science. He drew this artistic map of Spitsbergen (Svalbard) for his much delayed book A Journey to Spitsbergen in 1920. With hand-written pencil notes.

Nobel Peace Prize
"Peace Prize awarded to Fridtjof Nansen. He will use it for international relief efforts. 'The next war will be the doom of Europe'."
Morgenbladet (Oslo), 11 December 1922

Self-portrait, Christmas 1924
"To John Gorvin
with hearty good wishes for 1925, in gratitude for his wholehearted and valuable colaboration in passed years
from Fridtjof Nansen"

Portrait
Painted by Nansen's friend and neighbour, the painter Erik Werenskiold, in 1938, eight years after Nansen's death.

Portrait
By Erik Werenskiold, around 1924.
This drawing was discovered in the attic in the 1980s, and is probably the only Nansen portrait that has been kept at Polhøgda permanently since Nansen's days.

Portrait
By Dagfin Werenskiold, son of Erik Werenskiold, probably in 1924.

  Self-portrait, 1930
Lithograph, 1930. Authenticity attested by Fridtjof Nansen's son Odd Nansen.

 

 

Nansen dies
"Professor Fridtjof Nansen suddenly passed away today at noon due to heart failure in his home at Lysaker"

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