Tobias Bernhoft
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Tobias Brodtkorp Bernhoft (5 December 1869 – 20 August 1936) was a Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 engineer and director.

He was born on 5 December 1869 to Tobias Bernhoft senior (1841-1872) and his wife Thora (1848-1910) at Strinda
Strinda
Strinda is a former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The area encompassed the eastern part of the present-day municipality of Trondheim south and east of the main city center all the way southeast to the lake Jonsvatnet.-History:...

. He married Marie Holmboe on 30 September 1896, with whom he had four children. Among them was the famous singer Bias Bernhoft
Bias Bernhoft
Tobias Brodtkorb "Bias" Bernhoft was a Norwegian singer and revue writer.-Early and personal life:He was born at Voss in 1902 to the Holmenkolbanen director Tobias Bernhoft and his wife Marie Holmboe...

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Bernhoft studied at Kristiania tekniske skole ("Kristiania School of Technics") from 1889 to 1891. In the same year as he left the school, Bernhoft was hired by the Norwegian State Railways. He became the engineer of the constructions of the Gjøvik, Bergen, Roa-Hønefoss, Rauma and Solør Lines. In 1911, Bernhoft was appointed chief engineer of the Dovre Line. Bernhoft became the managing director of Holmenkolbanen
Holmenkolbanen
A/S Holmenkolbanen was a company that owned and operated part of the Oslo Tramway and Oslo Metro in Norway from 1898 until 1975 when services were taken over by the majority owner Oslo Sporveier. Holmenkolbanen opened the Holmenkoll Line in 1898, and expanded it to become the first Nordic...

 in 1914, succeeding Finn Sejersted
Finn Sejersted
Finn Sejersted was a Norwegian director and railway engineer.He was born in Trondheim, Nord-Trøndelag in 1868, and studied at Trondhjems tekniske Skole between 1887 and 1890...

. Tobias Bernhoft died on 20 August 1936, 68 years old. After Bernhoft's death in 1936, Olav Braarud
Olav Braarud
Olav Braarud was a Norwegian director and engineer.Born in Verdal, Nordre Trondhjems Amt, he travelled to Darmstadt, Germany, where he graduated as an engineer in 1910. In 1912, he became operational engineer of the company Holmenkolbanen, which owned and operated the Holmenkollen Line in Oslo,...

became managing director.
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