Fridtjof nansen

Hi, my name is Mario Unger, I'm a photographer and digital artist from Austria. Last year my main work was restoring and colorizing old photographs. In this post I show some of my favorites.

Fridtjof Nansen

The Nobel Peace Prize 1922 was awarded to Fridtjof Nansen "for his leading role in the repatriation of prisoners of war, in international relief work and as the League of Nations' High Commissioner for refugees"

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A remarkable and extraordinarily rare bit of ephemera, being a cartographic broadside relating to a March 26, 1897 reception for Norwegian Arctic explorer Fridt

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Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, statesman, and humanitarian who led a number of Arctic explorations and won the 1922 Nobel Prize for Peace.

Fridtjof Nansen of Norway... 1. Explored the Arctic and Antarctic 2. Champion Skier 3. Helped found modern neurology 4. Created the first refugee passport, thus saving hundreds of thousands of lives 5. Was one of the key people making Norway an independent nation from Sweden 6. Earned a Nobel Peace Prize 7. Sported the finest mustache in Norway, and probably the world!