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Paul Steenstrup Koht (28 August 1844 – 26 August 1892) was a Norwegian educator and politician for the Liberal Party. He was the father of Halvdan Koht, a Marxist historian and Labour Party politician. Having developed a penchant for Greek and Roman poetry in his student years, Koht lectured in philology as an adult. He also taught living languages, most notably Norwegian. In 1871 he married Betty Giæver, a merchant's daughter one year his junior; the couple were drawn together by a shared passion for languages. Despite the conservative political views of his family, Koht became fascinated by the radical national liberal movement of the late 19th century. His first political activism was manifested in his editing of ''Tromsøposten''; in the late 1870s and early 1880s he chaired the Tromsø Labour Association, which catapulted him into the political limelight. Eventually becoming elected as both mayor of the city and member of Parliament, he advocated radical reforms, amongst them common suffrage and the eight-hour day. ==Early life and educational career== He was born in Bodø, the son of Joachim Andreas Koht, a pharmacist, and Johanne Andrea Conradi. The young Koht finished secondary education in 1861 and graduated with a cand. philol. degree in 1868. Koht's biographer, Bernt A. Nissen, maintained that he developed his literary taste while studying: the circle spending their leisure time in "the green chamber" of the Students' Society had, according to Nissen, a decisive influence on Koht. In a bulletin titled ''Samfundsblade'', Koht—together with Sofus Arctander, Ole Furu and Hans Brecke—recited Ancient Greek and Latin poems.〔 In the year following his graduation, Koht started his tuition at Norwegian schools. Inspired by the classical languages of his formative years, he taught Ancient Greek and Classical Latin in addition to Standard Norwegian—he taught those languages for the remainder of his tutorial career. He began at Gjersten School, before moving to Tromsø, where he taught at the school of his childhood. He was appointed preceptor of that school in 1871 and married Betty Giæver (1845–1936), a merchant's daughter whose great-grandfather was the civil servant Jens Holmboe, on 28 July the same year. Betty, also interested in philology, gave birth to four children, the most famous of whom was Halvdan Koht, who would become a historian of the Marxist school and Foreign Minister in the pre-war era. In 1885, Koht moved with his family to Skien, where he would live for the rest of his life. Having been instantaneously appointed head teacher of Skien Upper Secondary School, he travelled to Germany and Switzerland in the subsequent year—he had received a travel grant from the government to study the educational systems of German-speaking Europe. On his return to Skien, Koht continued his tuition at the secondary school; amongst his students was his son Halvdan Koht, who, two years before the elder Koht's decease in 1892, took his examen artium there, continuing with philological studies in Kristiania.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Steenstrup Koht」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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