Gisle Midttun (1881–1940) was a Norwegian

cultural historian Cultural history combines the approaches of anthropology and history to examine popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience. It examines the records and narrative descriptions of past matter, encompassing the ...

and museologist. He was born in

Kvinnherad Kvinnherad is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sunnhordland, along the Hardangerfjorden. The municipality was the 5th in size in former Hordaland county. The administrative centre of the mu ...

, and was a brother of philologist Olav Midttun. Midttun was assigned with the

Norwegian Museum of Cultural History Norsk Folkemuseum (Norwegian Museum of Cultural History), at Bygdøy, Oslo, Norway, is a museum of cultural history with extensive collections of artifacts from all social groups and all regions of the country. It also incorporates a large op ...

from 1910. He was a co-editor of the multi-volume series ''Norske bygder'', where he also published several of his scientific works.

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1881 births 1940 deaths People from Kvinnherad 20th-century Norwegian historians Cultural historians {{norway-bio-stub