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Jan 25, 1811 Gausdal, Oppland, Norway Died on 22 Jan 1888 (aged 76)
Norwegian naval officer
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About Hakon Adelsteen Sommerfeldt
- Håkon Adelsteen Sommerfeldt (25 January 1811 – 22 January 1888) was a Norwegian naval officer and ship designer. He was born in Gausdal in Oppland, Norway.
- In 1826 he entered the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy (Sjøkrigsskolen) in Fredriksværn (now Stavern).
- In 1831 he became a secondary lieutenant, and in 1833 he graduated from the military college.
- In 1834 he became an assistant at the naval shipbuilding inspection station.
- Sommerfeldt became premier lieutenant in 1836.
- In 1837, Sommerfeldt received a travel scholarship to study shipbuilding, traveling to Great Britain, France, the Netherlands and Denmark.
- In 1839, Sommerfeldt was appointed as naval shipbuilding inspector at the Karljohansvern naval yard in Horten.He was a co-designer of USS Princeton (1843), along with Swedish engineer and inventor John Ericsson.
- His other ship designs included the Nornen (1855), St.
- Olaf (1856) and Kong Sverre (1860).
- He published several books on ships construction, including Om handelsskibes Construction (1845), Haandhog for practisk Skibsbyggeri (1855) and Lærebog i praktisk Skibsbyggeri (1856).
- He was decorated Knight of the Order of St.
- Olav in 1854.
