Johan Kristian Skougaard

Johan Kristian Skougaard was a Norwegian military officer and politician.
He was born in Lista, and originally took his education in the Norwegian military. He was hired as an engineer in the Norwegian [Public Roads Administration] in 1873, and left the military in 1887. He served as mayor of Oslo in 1905, and as director of the Norwegian [Directorate of Public Roads] from 1904 to 1918.
He was also a non-fiction writer, publishing the Det norske veivesens historie in two volumes, and a lexicographer, publishing a French-Norwegian dictionary in 1921. A Norwegian-French dictionary was published posthumously.