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Albert Johan Petersson

Swedish chemist, engineer and industrialist

Albert Johan Petersson (6 February 1870^[1] – 18/19 August 1914^[2]) was a Swedish chemist, engineer and industrialist. He is most known as the developer of the Alby-furnace for producing of Calcium carbide and as the first director of the carbide and cyanamide factories in Odda in Norway. He was born in Landskrona, Sweden and probably died during a boat trip between Odda and Bergen.

Family and disappearance

Albert Petersson was married to the German born Leonie Witt, daughter of professor Otto Nikolaus Witt [sv] (1853–1915) in Berlin. Together they had two children, both born in Odda. Claus was born in 1907. Then Ingrid in 1910, in which Leonie died from childbirth complications. On 18 August 1914 Petersson went aboard the fjord steamer D/S Ullensvang in Odda. The next morning the boat arrived in Bergen and he had disappeared. The cause of his disappearance remains unknown.

Literature

Asbjørn Andersen og Ivar Haug (red.) Smeltedigelen – en industrisaga Odda Smelteverk gjennom 80 år, Odda 1989
Jan Gravdal, Svensken som fant Odda, Haugesunds Avis, 24. April 1999
Jan Gravdal and Vidar Våde, Tyssefaldene – krafttak i 100 år 1906-2006, Tyssedal 2006
Adm dir. Egil Kollenborg, Aktieselskabet Tyssefaldene 1906-1956, Stavanger 1956

References

^ "001 Albert Johan Petersson - 0007 Eide - 003 Eide - Freim - Census districts summary - 1910 census for Ullensvang - The Digital Archive". www.digitalarkivet.no. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
^ "Albert Johan Peterson - Church book from Odda parish, Odda local parish 1910-1940 (1228Q) - The Digital Archive". www.digitalarkivet.no. Retrieved 2021-02-03.