{{Use dmy dates | date=January 2024}} thumb|right|200 px|Oluf Christian Dietrichson '''Oluf Christian Dietrichson''' (3 May 1856 – 20 February 1942) was a Norwegian explorer and military officer. He was a member of the Greenland expedition of 1888 led by Fridtjof Nansen, the first documented crossing of Greenland.<ref name="snl">{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Oluf Christian Dietrichson |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/Oluf_Christian_Dietrichson |editor-last=Henriksen, Petter |language=Norwegian |accessdate=17 September 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Lyonel Perabo |title=The Crossing of Greenland |url=http://www.bivrost.com/the-crossing-of-greenland/ |access-date=May 1, 2017 |publisher=BIVROST - bridge to arctic stories}}</ref>
Oluf Dietrichson was born in Skogn Municipality (now part of Levanger Municipality) in Nordre Trondheim county, Norway. His father, Peter Wilhelm Kreidahl Dietrichson, was employed as the senior doctor at the Nord-Trøndelag Hospital. He received a military education and was commanding officer in Kristiansand from 1918 to 1924. Dietrichson continued his military career and advanced to Major General.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Asbjørn D. K. Eklo |title=Oluf Christian Dietrichson |url=http://gamle.levanger.kommune.no/historie/doc/dietrichson_eklo_2009.pdf |access-date=May 1, 2017 |publisher=levanger.kommune.no |archive-date=30 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150330211626/http://gamle.levanger.kommune.no/historie/doc/dietrichson_eklo_2009.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Oluf Dietrichson (1856-1942) |url=http://frammuseum.no/polarhistorie/polfarere/oluf_dietrichson__1856-1942_ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324041317/http://frammuseum.no/polarhistorie/polfarere/oluf_dietrichson__1856-1942_ |archive-date=March 24, 2018 |access-date=May 1, 2017 |publisher=The Fram Museum}}</ref>
In 1888, Fridtjof Nansen assembling a team for the purpose of crossing the Greenlandic ice-sheet. Dietrichson participated as a metrological surveyor, surveyor and map marker. The other participants at the Greenland expedition were Otto Sverdrup, Samuel Balto, Ole Nielsen Ravna and Kristian Kristiansen.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Nansen |first=Fridtjof |title=På ski over Grønland |publisher=H. Aschehoug & Co |year=1961 |location=Oslo |page=12 |authorlink=Fridtjof Nansen |orig-date=1890}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=O.C. Dietrichson |url=http://www.polarhistorie.no/personer/Dietrichson%2C%20O.C |access-date=May 1, 2017 |publisher=Norsk Polar Historie |archive-date=17 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171217124701/http://www.polarhistorie.no/personer/Dietrichson%2C%20O.C |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Otto Sverdrup |url=http://www.polarhistorie.no/personer/Sverdrup%2C%20Otto |access-date=May 1, 2017 |publisher=Norsk Polar Historie |archive-date=17 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317164255/http://polarhistorie.no/personer/Sverdrup%2C%20Otto |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Samuel Balto |url=http://www.polarhistorie.no/personer/Balto,%20Samuel |access-date=May 1, 2017 |publisher=Norsk Polar Historie |archive-date=25 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220925121133/https://www.polarhistorie.no/personer/Balto,%20Samuel/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ole N. Ravna |url=http://www.polarhistorie.no/personer/Ravna,%20Ole%20Nilsen |access-date=May 1, 2017 |publisher=Norsk Polar Historie |archive-date=17 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171217124844/http://www.polarhistorie.no/personer/Ravna,%20Ole%20Nilsen |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Kristiansen, Kristian |url=http://www.steinkjerleksikonet.no/index.php?artikkel=410 |access-date=May 1, 2017 |publisher=steinkjerleksikonet.no}}</ref> thumb|left| Postcard with portraits of the members of the Greenland Expedition: Ole Nielsen Ravna, Samuel Balto, Otto Sverdrup, Fridtjof Nansen, Oluf Christian Dietrichson and Kristian Kristiansen
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==Other sources== * {{Cite book |last=Nansen |first=Fridtjof (tr. H.M. Gepp) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_qDNF2jSp30C |title=The First Crossing of Greenland |publisher=Longmans, Green |year=1890 |isbn=978-1-108-03109-7 |location=London}}
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