Magnús Már Lárusson (2 September 1917 – 15 January 2006) was an Icelandic theologian and historian. He was born in

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. After finishing school in 1937 he studied theology and graduated from the

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in 1941. Between 1942 and 1949 he was a priest and schoolteacher, but was also employed at the University of Iceland in 1947. He became a professor of theology in 1953 and professor of history in 1968. From 1969 to 1973 he served as rector. Magnús Már sat on the Skálholt Committee, the board of the

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, the Icelandic Bible Society from 1948 to 1964 and was vice chairman of the Icelandic Archaeological Society from 1961 to 1986. He was a guest scholar at the

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and the

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, and was a member of the

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from 1970.

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