Einar Niemi (born 16 September 1943) is a Norwegian historian, born in

Nord-Varanger Nord-Varanger is a former municipality in Finnmark county in Norway. The municipality existed from 1894 until its dissolution in 1964. It was located in the present-day Vadsø Municipality on the southern half of the Varanger Peninsula, east o ...

Finnmark Finnmark (; se, Finnmárku ; fkv, Finmarku; fi, Ruija ; russian: Финнмарк) was a county in the northern part of Norway, and it is scheduled to become a county again in 2024. On 1 January 2020, Finnmark was merged with the neighbouri ...

. He is known for his study of the history of ethnical minorities, and for his contributions to administration of cultural heritage of Northern Norway. Among his publications is the book ''Den finske fare'' from 1981 (co-authored with

Knut Einar Eriksen Knut Einar Eriksen (born 31 July 1944) is a Norwegian historian. He was born in Sarpsborg, and took the cand.philol. degree in 1969. He was an associate professor at the University of Tromsø from 1975 to 1982, and a professor from 1982 to 1986. ...

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1943 births Living people People from Vadsø 20th-century Norwegian historians Academic staff of the University of Tromsø Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters {{Norway-writer-stub