Kåre Lunden (8 April 1930 – 18 July 2013) was a Norwegian historian, and

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of History at the

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. Lunden was born in

Naustdal Naustdal is a former municipality in the old Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It was located in the traditional district of Sunnfjord. The administrative centre was the village of Naustdal, which has 1,188 inhabitants (2017). Other village ...

. He originally studied agronomy at the

Norwegian College of Agriculture The Norwegian University of Life Sciences ( no, Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelige universitet, NMBU) is a public university located in Ås, Norway. It is located at Ås in Viken, near Oslo, and at Adamstuen in Oslo and has around 5,200 stud ...

, graduating in 1957. He then worked six years as a civil servant in the

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, before taking up history studies. There he graduated as cand.philol. in 1965. He was appointed by the King-in-Council as Professor of History at the

in 1976. He is a member of the

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. He was an able

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er while studying. He represented the sports team of the Norwegian College of Agriculture, NLHI, and threw 50.27 metres in 1954. He was a brother of poet

Eldrid Lunden Eldrid Lunden (born 5 October 1940) is a Norwegian poet, and 1996 became Norway's first professor in creative writing, at Telemark University College. She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1989, and the Brage Prize honorary award in 2000. Lunde ...

Selected bibliography

*''Norge under Sverre-ætten'', volume 3 of ''Cappelens Norgeshistorie'', 1976 *''Biletet av fortida: innhogg i historisk fagteori'', 1991 *''Norsk grålysing'', 1992 *''Den vakre snikkarkona: frå Geoffrey Chaucers Canterbury-forteljingar og andre mellomaldervers'' (ed.), 1992 *''Nasjon eller union? Refleksjonar og røynsler'', 1993 *''Dialog med fortida. Historie om ..'', 1995 *''Norges Landbrukshistorie'', volume 2, 2002

References

List of publications in FRIDA
1930 births 2013 deaths People from Naustdal 20th-century Norwegian historians Historians of agriculture Social historians Norwegian College of Agriculture alumni Academic staff of the University of Oslo Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Norwegian male javelin throwers {{Norway-historian-stub