Nils Økland

Nils Andreas Økland was a Norwegian Esperantist and teacher in Stord (Hordaland), Norway. He spent some years in his youth on the island Utsira, where his father was a school teacher. Nils Økland was married to Hanna Olava Bergstøl, and they had 3 sons. His father Matthias Larsen Økland was also a school teacher and a church chorister; his mother was Signi Nilsdatter from Eidsvåg. Having learned Esperanto indirectly through his friend Haldor Midthus by 1904, he served as president on the executive council of Stord's Norwegian Esperanto League branch. ^{Nils Økland, Norwegian Esperantist and teacher (d. 1969)}

10 June 1882

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