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As it happens. Autobiography of Sigurður Thoroddsen. Halldóra Thoroddsen prepared the printing.
Engineer Sigurður Thoroddsen was born in Bessastaðir in Álftanes, where his parents, Theódóra and Skúli, had moved from Ísafjörður, where Skúli was a sheriff and merchant. Skúli was better known for his parliamentary service and editorial work for Þjóðviljan Sr.
Sigurður attended Landakotsskóli and later Reykjavík High School, graduating in 1919, at the age of seventeen.
After a year of studying philosophy at the University of Iceland, Sigurður went to Copenhagen, studied engineering and graduated in 1927.
There was not much scope for engineers in Iceland when he returned from his studies. Sigurður worked on various projects, conducted an assessment of harbors in the Northeast, worked on studies of power plant potential, and was an employee of the National Energy Agency for four years.
He founded his own engineering firm in the spring of 1932, Sigurður Thoroddsen Engineering Firm, which was the first engineering firm in the country. The business started slowly, but grew rapidly after the end of the war.
Sigurður was a great enthusiast of power plants and designed, among other things, hydroelectric power plants at Eidar and Hallormsstaður. At a Nordic conference in 1952, he presented his first overview plan for hydroelectric power in Iceland.
He sat in the Althing for four years for the Socialist Party and was mainly concerned with electricity issues.
Sigurður Thoroddsen served on the Electricity Board, the Nature Conservation Board, the Advisory Committee on Power Generation Issues, and the Tender Committee. He also served for a time on the board of Landsvirkjun and on the Electricity Committee.
He was very concerned about nature conservation and wrote an article in the Engineers' Journal in 1955 about the importance of nature conservation. In it, he says, among other things, that engineers have "a direct duty to see to it that civil engineering is carried out in such a way that the landscape is as unsightly as possible, because if that happens, the rights of the public are violated, and the engineer's well-being is his concern..."
Engineer Sigurður Thoroddsen was born in Bessastaðir in Álftanes, where his parents, Theódóra and Skúli, had moved from Ísafjörður, where Skúli was a sheriff and merchant. Skúli was better known for his parliamentary service and editorial work for Þjóðviljan Sr.
Sigurður attended Landakotsskóli and later Reykjavík High School, graduating in 1919, at the age of seventeen.
After a year of studying philosophy at the University of Iceland, Sigurður went to Copenhagen, studied engineering and graduated in 1927.
There was not much scope for engineers in Iceland when he returned from his studies. Sigurður worked on various projects, conducted an assessment of harbors in the Northeast, worked on studies of power plant potential, and was an employee of the National Energy Agency for four years.
He founded his own engineering firm in the spring of 1932, Sigurður Thoroddsen Engineering Firm, which was the first engineering firm in the country. The business started slowly, but grew rapidly after the end of the war.
Sigurður was a great enthusiast of power plants and designed, among other things, hydroelectric power plants at Eidar and Hallormsstaður. At a Nordic conference in 1952, he presented his first overview plan for hydroelectric power in Iceland.
He sat in the Althing for four years for the Socialist Party and was mainly concerned with electricity issues.
Sigurður Thoroddsen served on the Electricity Board, the Nature Conservation Board, the Advisory Committee on Power Generation Issues, and the Tender Committee. He also served for a time on the board of Landsvirkjun and on the Electricity Committee.
He was very concerned about nature conservation and wrote an article in the Engineers' Journal in 1955 about the importance of nature conservation. In it, he says, among other things, that engineers have "a direct duty to see to it that civil engineering is carried out in such a way that the landscape is as unsightly as possible, because if that happens, the rights of the public are violated, and the engineer's well-being is his concern..."