Ernst Killander

{{short description|Swedish orienteer}} '''Ernst Killander''' (10 March 1882 – 24 January 1958<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=TMoUAQAAIAAJ Encyclopedia of world sport] vol. 2, p. 706</ref>), a Swedish Major in the First World War, was one of the people who made the sport of orienteering popular in Scandinavian countries.<ref name="oa1">{{cite web|url=http://www.orienteering.asn.au/promotion/facts/History/ |title=Orienteering: A Brief History |publisher=Orienteering Australia |accessdate=2008-08-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719230326/http://www.orienteering.asn.au/promotion/facts/History/ |archivedate=2008-07-19 }}</ref>

Killander was a vegetarian. He was President of the Swedish Vegetarian Society and attended the International Vegetarian Union Congress in 1953.<ref>[https://ivu.org/congress/wvc53/photos.html "13th IVU World Vegetarian Congress 1953"]. International Vegetarian Union.</ref>

==See also== *History of orienteering

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