Dagfinn Mannsåker (30 June 1916 – 16 July 1994) was a Norwegian archivist and historian. He was born at

Ullensvang Ullensvang is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Hardanger. The administrative centre is the town of Odda. Some of the notable villages in the municipality include Lofthus, Utne, Vikebygd ...

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, Norway. He was the brother of

Bergfrid Fjose Bergfrid Fjose (31 March 1915 – 13 May 2004) was a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party. She was born in Ullensvang as the daughter of priest and politician Jon Mannsåker; her brother was the historian Dagfinn Mannsåke ...

. He took the dr.philos. degree in 1955, on the thesis ''Det norske presteskapet i det nittande hundreåret. Sosialhistoriske studiar''. He worked as a school teacher from 1954 to 1959, lecturer at the

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from 1959 to 1965 and national archivist from 1965 to 1982. He edited the academic journal '' Historisk Tidsskrift'' for many years, and contributed to ''

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''. From 1966 to 1972 he chaired the

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(''Den norske historiske forening'').

Publications (selected)

* ''Jacob Aall: liv og gjerning før 1814'', Oslo 1944. * ''Det norske presteskapet i det nittande hundreåret. Sosialhistoriske studiar'', 1954. * ''Norsk samfunnslære'', with Hans Aarnes, 1956. * ''Norsk samfunnslære for realskolen/realskulen'', with Hans Aarnes, 1959. * ''Nyare forsking omkring 1814'', in the booklet ''1814 og 1884'', Oslo 1968. * ''Diskresjonsspørsmål og personvern i lokalhistoria'', in ''Heimen'', 1977 * ''Dei religiøse folkerørslene og samfunnet ca. 1750 - 1850'', in ''Streiftog i Kirkehistorien'', Oslo 1996. * ''Vegen til Kringsjå. Byggesaka til Riksarkivet fram til 1965'', in ''Arkivmagasinet'' 1/1998

References

1916 births 1994 deaths People from Ullensvang 20th-century Norwegian historians Norwegian archivists University of Oslo faculty {{Norway-historian-stub