Frantz Rosenberg

Frantz Rosenberg was a lawyer from Oslo. Thanks to his wealthy wife, he could devote himself to his main interests, hunting and hunting weapons. He lived on a farm on Jeløya island near Moss where he had his own weapons workshop and shooting range, where he experimented with various weapons and ammunition.

His big game hunting trips took Rosenberg to places around the world. He wrote several books about hunting, such as Big Game Hunting in British East Africa (1916), Big Game Hunting in Norway and Alaska (1926), Big Game Shooting in British Columbia and Norway (1928) and Shooting Life (1952). In addition, he wrote many more weapon-oriented articles in various magazines including the American Rifleman.

At the 1912 Olympic Games, Rosenberg was the third-best Scandinavian shooter in the individual trap event. In 1938, he was the winner of the King’s Cup of Norway’s Shooting Association in game target shooting. He also had a large collection of weapons of all kinds, from muzzleloaders upwards. Many of them were stolen by the Nazis during World War II, most of the rest dispersed after his death.