Torstein Eckhoff

Torstein Einang Eckhoff (5 June 1916 – 17 April 1993) was a Norwegian civil servant and professor of law at the University of Oslo.

Personal life

He was born in Vestre Slidre as the son of shipmaster Trygve Eckhoff (1884–1957) and his wife Sigrid Einang (1886–1971). He was a brother of designer Mathias Gerrard Eckhoff, a second cousin of jurist Ernst Fredrik Eckhoff and actor Johannes Eckhoff, and a grandnephew of architect Niels Stockfleth Darre Eckhoff. In 1941 he married psychologist Eva Bergliot Råness (1921–1991). They resided at Eiksmarka.

Career

Eckhoff finished his secondary education in 1934, and enrolled in law studies at the University of Oslo. He graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1938, and worked as a deputy judge in Senja until 1940. He then became a lecturer of law, and released several books during World War II. His 1945 book Rettskraft earned him the dr.juris degree in 1947. In 1945 he was hired in the Ministry of Justice and the Police, where he was promoted to assistant secretary after one year. He spent a period from 1947 to 1948 in the United States; this resulted in the book Rettsvesen og rettsvitenskap i USA (1953).

Tiril Eckhoff

Tiril Kampenhaug Eckhoff (born 21 May 1990) is a Norwegian biathlete who represents Fossum IF. Her best individual result internationally is a win in the 7.5km sprint in the 2014–15 Biathlon World Cup in Östersund in December 2014.

Career

Echoff has been part of the Norwegian biathlon team since 2008.

Echoff competed in Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi where she won 2 bronze medals and 1 gold. Bronze in the Mass Start and in the Women's relay and a gold in the Mixed relay together with Tora Berger, Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Emil Hegle Svendsen.

She is the sister of former biathlete Stian Eckhoff. She studies engineering at the Norwegian Institute of Technology.

Record

World cup Individual Victories

Sprint 6.12.2014 Östersund

Olympic Games

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