Sivert Langholm (19 May 1927 – 16 April 2022) was a Norwegian historian.

Life and career

Sivert Langholm was born in

Haugesund Haugesund () is a municipality on the North Sea in Rogaland county, Norway. While the population is greater in the neighboring Karmøy municipality, the main commercial and economic centre of the Haugaland region in northern Rogaland and southern ...

, and was the brother of Odd Langholm. He was a cand.philol. by education, and was appointed professor 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 1976. His main areas of research were 19th-century

social history Social history, often called the new social history, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. In its "golden age" it was a major growth field in the 1960s and 1970s among scholars, and still is well represented in his ...

and the history of the university. Langholm also headed the editorial committee of the five-volume work ''Oslo bys historie'', covering the

history of Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of i ...

. The five volumes were penned by Arnved Nedkvitne and Per G. Norseng (the period 1000 to 1536), Knut Sprauten (the period 1536 to 1814),

Jan Eivind Myhre Jan Eivind Myhre (born 26 April 1947) is a Norwegian historian. He was a professor II at the University of Tromsø from 1991 to 2001, became a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 1994 and then at the University of O ...

(the period 1814 to 1900), Knut Kjeldstadli (the period 1900 to 1948) and Edgeir Benum (the period 1948 to the 1990s) respectively. Langholm was a member of 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 Univer ...

. From 1984 to 1988 he chaired the

Norwegian Historical Association The Norwegian Historical Association ( no, Den norske historiske forening, HIFO) is a Norwegian historical organization. The Association was founded in 1869 by Michael Birkeland and Ludvig Ludvigsen Daae. It works to promote historical research an ...

. For his seventieth birthday, a

Festschrift In academia, a ''Festschrift'' (; plural, ''Festschriften'' ) is a book honoring a respected person, especially an academic, and presented during their lifetime. It generally takes the form of an edited volume, containing contributions from the h ...

was issued. It was edited by Knut Kjeldstadli, Jan Eivind Myhre and

Tore Pryser Tore Pryser (born 9 January 1945) is a Norwegian historian, who has served as professor at the Lillehammer University College since 1993. Born in Oslo, he took a cand.philol. degree at the University of Oslo. He was appointed at the Lillehamm ...

. Sivert Langholm died on 16 April 2022, at the age of 94.

References

1927 births 2022 deaths 20th-century Norwegian historians Academic staff of the University of Oslo Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters People from Haugesund {{Norway-historian-stub