Egil Olaf Hartmann (1 April 1859 – 3 November 1906) was a Norwegian jurist, archivist, journalist and magazine editor. He was born in

Larvik Larvik () is a List of cities in Norway, town and Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestfold in Vestfold og Telemark Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Larvik. The municipality ...

Vestfold Vestfold is a traditional region, a former county and a current electoral district in Eastern Norway. In 2020 the county became part of the much larger county of Vestfold og Telemark. Located on the western shore of the Oslofjord, it bordered th ...

. He was the son of

Gudbrand Helenus Hartmann Gudbrand Helenus Hartmann (17 June 1832 – 30 April 1900) was a Norwegian schoolteacher, rector and civil servant. He was born in Oslo, Christiania to Paul Bøckmann Hartmann and Henrikka Severine Anker, and was the father of Edle Hartmann an ...

and Fredrikke Dorothea Christiane. The family lived briefly in the 1870s at

Tromsø Tromsø (, , ; se, Romsa ; fkv, Tromssa; sv, Tromsö) is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Tromsø (city), city of Tromsø. Tromsø lies ...

, and then moved to Skien. He earned his

cand.jur. Candidate of Law (Latin: ''candidatus/candidata juris/iuris'') is both a graduate law degree awarded to law students in the Nordic region as well as an academic status designation for advanced Law School students in German-speaking countries. ...

in 1887. He was appointed to 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 Mi ...

in 1894 and promoted to the position of archivist in 1898. He was a journalist for the newspaper '' Morgenbladet'' from 1890 to 1904, and edited the satirical magazine ''

Korsaren ''Korsaren'' ('The Corsair') was a Norwegian satirical magazine published between 1879 and 1926. History and profile ''Korsaren'' was established in 1879 by Jacob Breda Bull under the name ''Krydseren'', mimicking an older publication of the same ...

'' from 1894 to 1903. The article collection ''Blink; fra dagliglivets psykologi'' was published posthumously in 1908.

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1859 births 1906 deaths People from Larvik Norwegian journalists Morgenbladet people Norwegian magazine editors Norwegian archivists {{norway-bio-stub