Aksel Arstal

Aksel Kristian Andersen Arstal was a Norwegian theologian, schoolteacher and geographer.
He was born in Christiania to city engineer Oluf Martin Andersen and Annette Fredrikke Sontum, and was a brother of pianist Hildur Andersen.
He graduated as cand.theol. in 1876 from University of Oslo, worked as schoolteacher at various private schools, eventually as geography teacher at the Oslo [Commerce School], and lectured in political geography at the university. His works on geography include Landomrids, Geografi for Middelskolen and Norges økonomiske Geografi. He edited , a work on parents and children which had a large number of prominent contributors. Arstal edited the first edition of the encyclopedia Oslo byleksikon, which was published in 1938, a work which had taken several years to accomplish.
He died in November 1940.