Fartein Valen-Sendstad (15 June 1918 – 13 February 1984) was a Norwegian historian and museologist. He served as Director of Maihaugen in Lillehammer, Norway. He was born 15 June 1918 in

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(now Oslo), Norway. He attended Oslo Cathedral School and the University of Oslo cand.philol. (1947);

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(1965). He worked as

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of the Sandvig Collection at Maihaugen in

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from 1949. In 1964 he succeeded

Sigurd Grieg Sigurd Jebsen Grieg (22 August 1894 – 3 November 1973) was a Norwegian museologist and archeologist. He was director of the Sandvig Collections at Maihaugen in Lillehammer. He is most associated with the excavation of Raknehaugen, a prehisto ...

as museum administrator. He also lectured at the Norges Landbrukshøgskole in

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. He published the three-volume series ''Gudbrandsdalen gjennom tidene'' in cooperation with

. His main research contribution was on the history of agriculture in Norway.

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1918 births 1984 deaths Writers from Oslo People educated at Oslo Cathedral School University of Oslo alumni Grini concentration camp survivors 20th-century Norwegian historians Museologists {{Norway-historian-stub