Norwegian Unitarian youth organizations

So far little has been known about Norwegian Unitarian youth organizations. Was there any? The ongoing research for the history of early Norwegian Unitarianism has now surprisingly revealed not just one but two such organizations.

The first Unitarian youth organization seems to have existed December 1905 to June 1906. It was probably founded by the Unitarian pastor Herman Haugerud (1864-1937). Interesting is that Harold Tambs Lyche is said to be secretary in this organization. He was son of Hans Tambs Lyche (1859-1898) who many years worked as Unitarian minister in the USA and later would try to organize a Unitarian church in Oslo but failed to do so. What happend to this organization is difficult to tell because the historical sources are missing but it seems the members held several meetings and social gatherings, and it is also said that there were about 87 members (this figure is very unsure and probably not correct). Then after June 1906 all information about this organization just stop.

But as newly discovered in the Newspaper Social-Demokraten October 20 1914, pastor Haugerud tried to establish a new youth organization Tuesday October 13 1914. Part from the newspaper article titled «Unitarian youth organization founded» there is no other sources and nothing more is known. We do not know what happened to this organization or for how long it lived. According to the newspaper its first meeting would be Tuesday October 20 1914 in»The Farmer's House» in Oslo.

Unitarian belessing and forwarding posts for historical blogg

I am happy to tell you that all three videos from the Hungarian-Unitarian minister blessing ceremony that took place first weekend in Budapest now is available here. This historical moment continues the first official contact made between Norwegian Unitarian Church and Transylvanian Unitarian Church back in 1909.


To the subscribers to our Unitarian historical blog:
And now a shot note on forwarding posts from our Unitarian historical blog. Hopefulle we now will be able to save time by directly forward the postings also to the Norwegian Unitarian mailinglist and in this way make our postings available to a larger number of readers. If this means some of you receives double postings, please make contakt and I will solve this as soon as possible. E-mail me at unitarian@christian.net