 He also translated "Das Kapital".He was born in Hemnesberget as a son of Jonas Cornelius Falk (1844–1915) and Anna Margrethe Middelthon (1857–1924).Falk attended school in Trondheim (1901), Mosjøen (1903) and high school in Stavanger (1905) before he moved to Duluth, Minnesota in 1907.