Christian von Ehrenfels
Christian von Ehrenfels was born on 20 June 1859 in Rodaun near Vienna and grew up at his father's castle Brunn am Walde in Lower Austria. He joined secondary school in Krems and first studied at the Hochschule für Bodenkultur in Vienna and then changed to the Universität Wien.
Christian Tybring-Gjedde
Christian Tybring-Gjedde was born in Oslo to businessman and wholesaler Harald Tybring-Gjedde (born 1930) and Irene Mathilde Falch (born 1930). Harald was the owner of a large office supply company founded by his father Carl in 1918, until selling the family out of the company in 2001. He was raised in Sandvika in the Bærum municipality near Oslo's west-end, attending primary school at Jong Elementary school from 1970 to 1976, and upper secondary school at Kristelig Gymnasium from 1976 to 1982.