Magne Skodvin (13 December 1915 – 26 January 2004) was a Norwegian educator and historian.

Biography

Skodvin was born at

Ullensvang Ullensvang is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Hardanger. The administrative centre is the town of Odda. Some of the notable villages in the municipality include Lofthus, Utne, Vikebygd ...

Hordaland Hordaland () was a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland counties. Hordaland was the third largest county, after Akershus and Oslo, by population. The county government was the Hordaland County Munici ...

, Norway. He was the son of Anders Skodvin (1884–1938) and Karen Marie Haaland (1884–1958). Skodvin attended the

Hardanger Hardanger is a traditional district in the western part of Norway, dominated by the Hardangerfjord and its inner branches of the Sørfjorden and the Eid Fjord. It consists of the municipalities of Ullensvang, Eidfjord, Ulvik and Kvam, and is ...

folkehøgskole from 1930 to 1931. In 1935, he took his final exams from

Voss Voss () is a municipality and a traditional district in Vestland county, Norway. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Vossevangen. Other villages include Bolstadøyri, Borstrondi, Evanger, Kvitheim, Mjølfjell, ...

landsgymnas. During the

Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until th ...

during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

, he participated in

Norwegian resistance movement The Norwegian resistance (Norwegian: ''Motstandsbevegelsen'') to the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany began after Operation Weserübung in 1940 and ended in 1945. It took several forms: *Asserting the legitimacy of the exiled governmen ...

. He graduated with a cand.philol. degree at the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

in 1946 and took his doctorate in 1956 with the paper ''Striden om okkupasjonsstyret i Norge''.''Magne Skodvin''
Store norske leksikon Skodvin work as a professor of history, first at the teacher's college in

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...

(''Trondheim lærerhøgskole'') and from 1961 at the University of Oslo. He worked as a professor in history at the

until 1983. He was the chairman of organization

Noregs Mållag Noregs Mållag (literally "Language Organisation of Norway") is the main organisation for Norwegian Nynorsk (New Norwegian), one of the two official written standards of the Norwegian language. In the Norwegian language conflict, it advocates the ...

from 1958 to 1960, and editor of the cultural and political periodical '' Syn og Segn'' from 1951 to 1959. He was a member of the

Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters ( da, Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab, DKNVS) is a Norwegian learned society based in Trondheim. It was founded in 1760 and is Norway's oldest scientific and scholarly institution. The ...

(''Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab'') from 1957 and the

Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ( no, Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Its purpose is to support the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway. History The Royal Frederick Unive ...

(''Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi'') from 1958.

Personal life

He was married in 1943 to Eva These Tobiesen. Skodvin was appointed a Knight 1st Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1988.

Bibliography

* ''Det store fremstøtet,''(1948) * ''Norges plass i Hitlers militære planar etter 7. juni 1940'' (1949) * ''Norsk okkupasjonshistorie i europeisk samanheng, i Nordisk Tidskrift'' (1951) *''Striden om okkupasjonsstyret i Norge'' (1956) *''Norden eller NATO'' (1971) *''Samtid og historie'' (1975) *''Som seilene fylles av stormen'' (1982) * ''Krig og okkupasjon 1939–1945'' (1990)

References

1915 births 2004 deaths People from Ullensvang University of Oslo alumni Academic staff of the University of Oslo Noregs Mållag leaders 20th-century Norwegian historians Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Recipients of the St. Olav's Medal {{Norway-historian-stub