Christopher Brinchmann (1 April 1864 – 26 February 1940) was a Norwegian archivist, literary historian and critic. He was born at Leka in

Nord-Trøndelag Nord-Trøndelag (; "North Trøndelag") was a county constituting the northern part of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. The county was established in 1804 when the old Trondhjems amt was divided into two: Nordre Trondhjems amt and S ...

, Norway. He worked in the

National Archival Services of Norway The National Archival Services of Norway ( no, Arkivverket) is a Norwegian government agency that is responsible for keeping state archives, conducts control of public archiving and works to preserve private archives. It is subordinate to the M ...

(''Riksarkivet'') from 1896, and was deputy director from 1922 to 1934. He was among the publishers of ''

Diplomatarium Norvegicum ''Diplomatarium Norvegicum'' is a series of books containing the texts of documents and letters from Norway older than 1590, verbatim and in the original language. The series consists of 22 volumes, containing the texts of approximately 20,000 docum ...

''. Among his own works were ''Nationalforskeren P. A. Munch; hans liv og virke'' (1910), ''Grønlands overgang til Danmark'' (1922), ''Norske kongesigiller'' (1924) and ''Norges arkivsaker i Danmark'' (1927). He also edited the periodical '' Kringsjaa'', from 1898 to 1907.

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1864 births 1940 deaths People from Leka, Norway 20th-century Norwegian historians Norwegian archivists Norwegian literary historians Norwegian literary critics 19th-century Norwegian journalists 20th-century Norwegian journalists {{Norway-historian-stub