Marcus Thrane — A Founding Father of Norway’s Labour Party

Happy 201st birthday to Marcus Møller Thrane, a Norwegian author, journalist, and the leader of the first labor movement in Norway (it was later known as the Thrane movement “Thranebevegelsen”). Thrane was born October 14, 1817 in Christiania, now Oslo.  As an adult Thrane worked as a teacher for the workers’ children at the large… More Marcus Thrane — A Founding Father of Norway’s Labour Party