Ingvar Brynhjulf Wedervang (21 July 1891 – 4 December 1961) was a

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and

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. He graduated from the

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with a degree in economics in 1913. During the next nine years, he worked first as a government statistician with

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, then for the private company Treschow-Fritzøe, and again for a government agency. In 1922 he moved to

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and continued his studies. He returned to Statistics Norway in 1923 and received his doctorate in 1925 with a dissertation on the sex proportion at birth and

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. Wedervang became lecturer at the University of Oslo in 1925 and was appointed professor of economics and statistics in June 1926. In 1930 Wedervang was among the sixteen founding members of the

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. As a professor Wedervang lectured on

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, social and economic statistics, and

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. Wedervang belonged firmly to the school of empirically oriented Norwegian economists in the tradition of

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. His work in the 1920s comprised an estimate of national income in Norway and some articles on trade problems. Wedervang did not publish in

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and was therefore hardly known outside

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. Professor Wedervang worked also actively for the establishment of the

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and served as the school's first

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from 1936 to 31 December 1956. His tenure was only interrupted by the

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when he was removed from his position due to patriotic attitude, and incarcerated in a concentration camp.Profile
at the

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In 1947 he was appointed Commander of the Order of St. Olav and Officer of the French

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wedervang, Ingvar 1891 births 1961 deaths Norwegian economists University of Oslo alumni Academics of the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo Norwegian School of Economics faculty Rectors of the Norwegian School of Economics Nazi concentration camp survivors Officiers of the Légion d'honneur