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Rolf Kristian Eckersberg Stenersen 13 February — 15 October was a Norwegian businessman, non-fiction writer, essayist , novelist , playwright and biographer. He was also a track and field athlete and art collector. He was a Norwegian champion in metres in and , and in 4 x metres relay in He participated at the Summer Olympics in Antwerp , where he competed in metres, metres and 4 x metres relay.

He was active on the stock market already as a teenager.

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He was a friend of painter Edvard Munch from the s, and came to be Munch's financial advisor. He was also a collector of his art work, and had one of the largest private collections of Munch's works. In he organized an exhibition of his art collection, which centered around works by Munch and Ludvig Karsten. He published books on economy, including Penger og tall from He donated his collection of Norwegian art to the municipality of Aker in From the collection has been on display in the Stenersen Museum in Oslo.

His books were forbidden by the Nazi regime in , and Stenersen had to flee to Sweden.