Jarle Simensen (born 23 March 1937, in

Os, Hedmark Os is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Os i Østerdalen. The municipality is located to the west of the munici ...

) is a Norwegian historian. He took the cand.philol. degree at the

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in 1966, and worked as a research assistant at the same university, a research fellow at the Norwegian Research Council and Institute of Social Research and, briefly, associate professor (''førsteamanuensis'') at the

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before taking the

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degree in Trondheim in 1976. He was then a professor there from 1980 to 2004. He returned to the

in 1996 to hold the position of adjunct professor (''professor II''); he is currently

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there. He is a member of the

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Selected bibliography

*''Commoners, Chiefs and Colonial Government. Akim Abuakwa, Ghana, under British Rule'', 1975 *''Afrikas historie. Nye perspektiver'', 1983 *''Norsk misjon i afrikansk historie. Sør-Afrika'', 1984 *''Norwegian Missions in African History. Vol. 1. South Africa 1845-1906'', 1986; ''Vol.2: Madagascar'', 1986 *''Utdanning som u-hjelp. NORAD og fiskeriopplæringen ved Ghana Nautical College, 1964-1980'', 1990 *''Vesten erobrer verden, 1870-1914'', volume 12 in ''Aschehougs Verdenshistorie'', 1986 *''Tyskland-Norge. Den lange historien'', (ed.), 2000

References

University of OsloList of publications in FRIDAJarle Simensen private archive
is kept at NTNU University Library 1937 births Living people 20th-century Norwegian historians University of Oslo alumni Norwegian University of Science and Technology alumni Academic staff of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Academic staff of the University of Oslo Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters {{Norway-historian-stub