title: Carsten Tank Nielsen
text: Carsten Tank Nielsen (18 December 1818 – 1 August 1892) was a Norwegian civil servant and government official. He was the first director of the Norwegian Telegraph (Telegrafverket now Telenor) from 1854 until his death in 1892. He and his wife Alvilde Olsen (1821–1890) were the parents of the historian and politician, Yngvar Nielsen.
  
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  1818 births
  1892 deaths
  Civil servants from Oslo
  Directors of government agencies of Norway
  Recipients of the St. Olav's Medal
  Order of the Dannebrog
  Order of the Polar Star
  Order of Vasa
  Burials at the Cemetery of Our Saviour