Andreas Holmsen (5 June 1906 – 20 February 1989) was a Norwegian historian, author, and educator. He is most commonly associated with his
textbook
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''Norges historie fra de eldste tider til 1660'' (Norwegian History from the Oldest Times to 1660), which is a standard introduction to early Norwegian history.
Personal life
He was born in
Kristiania
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(now Oslo), Norway. He was a son of head teacher Andreas Holmsen (1857–1926) and Dagmar Berger (1865–1948). From 1933 he was married to Solveig Ingebrethsen, a daughter of the newspaper editor Ingolf Ingebrethsen and sister of
Arne Jostein Ingebrethsen
Arne Jostein Ingebrethsen (9 July 1903 – 7 January 1945) was a Norwegian newspaper editor who was killed during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany.
His father Ingolf Ingebrethsen was a long-time editor of the newspaper '' Flekkefjordsposte ...
, but the marriage was dissolved. In 1961 he married the
ethnologist
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Rigmor Frimannslund (1911–2006). They resided at
Vøyenenga
Vøyenenga is a village in Viken, Norway
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. He died in February 1989 in
Bærum
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.
Career
Holmsen graduated from the
University of Oslo
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(
Cand. Philol. 1931). Andreas Holmsen was a consultant in history at the Institute of Economics at the
University of Oslo
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from 1934 to 1940. He was a professor of history at the university from 1955 to 1975. During the course of his career, Holmsen wrote several books and numerous articles in addition to delivering a number of scientific papers. His work principally concerned Norwegian
socioeconomic
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and
social history.
Bibliography
* 1936 ''Eidsvold bygds historie'' vol. 1.
* 1937 ''Sogn. Økonomisk og administrativ historie''
* 1939 ''Norges historie. Fra de eldste tider til 1660'' (1st ed.)
* 1943 ''Røkholt-Venger ætten. En slektsoversikt.''
* 1946 ''Fra Linderud til Eidsvold Værk'' vol. 1.
* 1950 ''Eidsvold bygds historie'' vol. 2
* 1966 ''Gard, bygd, rike'' (
Festschrift
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)
* 1971 ''Fra Linderud til Eidsvold Værk'' vol. 2.
* 1976 ''Nye studier i gammel historie''
* 1978 ''Hva kan vi vite om agrarkatastrofen i Norge i middelalderen?''
* 1984 ''Den store mannedauen''
References
Other sources
*
Lunden, Kåre and Harald Winge (1986) ''Andreas Holmsen en bibliografi over hans historiske forfatterskap'' (Oslo: Norsk loklahistorisk institutt)
*Fagerbakk, Terje (1989) ''Om å gå bakover - Andreas Holmsen i norsk lokalhistorisk forskning'' (University of Tromsø)
Related reading
*Holmsen, Andreas (1977) ''Norges Historie:Fra de eldste tider til 1660'' (Universitetsforlaget AS)
1906 births
1989 deaths
Writers from Oslo
University of Oslo alumni
20th-century Norwegian historians
Norwegian genealogists
University of Oslo faculty
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
20th-century Norwegian writers
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