Edvard Bull (22 November 1914 – 15 December 1986), Edvard Bull d.y. or Edvard Bull Jr. was a Norwegian professor and historian.

Biography

He was born in

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as the son of professor and politician

Edvard Bull, Sr. Edvard Bull (4 December 1881 – 26 August 1932) was a Norwegian historian and politician for the Labour Party. He took the doctorate in 1912 and became a professor at the University of Kristiania in 1917, and is known for writings on a broad r ...

and Lucie Juliane Antonette Voss 1886–1970). He was active member of the Workers' Youth League (AUF). During the

occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until the ...

he was imprisoned and sent to labour work in

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, and later incarcerated at

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. He attended the

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and was appointed to the cand.philol. in 1939; dr.philos. in 1958. He was a lecturer in Oslo from 1939 to 1948, curator at the Norwegian Folk Museum from 1950 to 1962, professor of history at the Norwegian College of Teaching, (later the

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) from 1963 to 1981 and rector there from 1966 to 1969. He wrote a large number of articles and several books, in particular on social history and the history of the Norwegian labour movement. Among his books is volume one of ''

Arbeiderbevegelsens historie i Norge ''Arbeiderbevegelsens historie i Norge'' ( en, History of the Workers' Movement in Norway) is a six-volume work about the labour movement history of Norway. It was released between 1985 and 1990 by Tiden Norsk Forlag. It was not the first work abo ...

'' a six-volume history series, published by

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between the years 1985–1990. He also wrote two volumes for ''Cappelens Norgeshistorie'', the Cappelen series on Norwegian history: Volume 13 '' Klassekamp og fellesskap 1920-1945'' and Volume 14 ''Norge i den rike verden tiden etter 1945''.

Personal life

He was married in 1939 to Andrea Nilsine Rockmann Olsen.

Selected works

*''Arbeiderklassen blir til. 1850–1900'' *'' Retten til en fortid sosialhistoriske artikler'' *''Norge i den rike verden tiden etter 1945'' * '' Klassekamp og fellesskap 1920-1945''

References

1914 births 1986 deaths Writers from Oslo Norwegian resistance members Grini concentration camp survivors World War II resistance press activists 20th-century Norwegian historians {{Norway-historian-stub