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Rigmor Frimannslund Holmsen (31 January 1911 – 28 April 2006) was a Norwegian
ethnologist Ethnology (from the grc-gre, ἔθνος, meaning 'nation') is an academic field that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them (compare cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology) ...
.


Personal life

Frimannslund was born in
Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...
on 31 January 1911, a daughter of military officer Bernhard Marius Frimannslund and Anna Sofie Thomassen. She was married to historian
Andreas Holmsen Andreas Holmsen (5 June 1906 – 20 February 1989) was a Norwegian historian, author, and educator. He is most commonly associated with his textbook ''Norges historie fra de eldste tider til 1660'' (Norwegian History from the Oldest Times to 1660), ...
from 1961 until his death in 1989.


Career

Holmsen graduated as mag.art. in 1941. Her thesis was a treatment of marriage proposal traditions in Norway. From 1946 she was appointed as conservator-restorer at the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History, at the museum's newly established section . She was assigned with this institute and the
Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture ( no, Instituttet for sammenlignende kulturforskning) is a humanities research institute based in Oslo, Norway. It was established in 1922 by Fredrik Stang. An independent institute, its task ...
during most of her career. Her research work focused on rural societies, including farms and neighbourhoods, primarily in Norway. She died in
Bærum Bærum () is a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Norway that forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a population of 128,760 (2021). It is part of the electoral ...
on 28 April 2006.


References

1911 births 2006 deaths People from Bergen Norwegian ethnologists {{norway-bio-stub