Sølvi Sogner (15 March 1932 – 23 March 2017) was a Norwegian historian. She was a professor at the
University of Oslo from 1988 to 2002.
Biography
Sogner was born in
Trondheim, Norway. She was the daughter of Trygve Bauge (1896-1978) and Sidsel Schulz (1904–97). In 1959, she married fellow historian Bjørn Sogner (1930–1985).
From 1957-1964, she was a scientific assistant at the
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(''Norsk lokalhistorisk institutt''). Sogner became university lecturer in 1975 and
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in 1976. She became an associate professor at the University of Oslo in 1974 and a professor from 1988. She was a member of the
Norwegian Academy of Sciences from 1994 and head of the International Commission for Historical Demographic Research (ICHD). She was a board member of the Norwegian Institute of Local History (1978-1981) and chairman (1982-1993).
Much of her research dealt with the subject of demographics. Among her publications wer
''Ung i Europa. Norsk ungdom over Nordsjøen til Nederland i tidlig nytid''(1994) an
''Og skuta lå i Amsterdam-: et glemt norsk innvandrersamfunn i Amsterdam 1621-1720''(2012) in which she researched 17th century Norwegian immigration to
Amsterdam and to the
Netherlands. She wrote about the period 1500–1750 in ''Cappelens kvinnehistorie'' (1992), and volume 6 ("Krig og fred 1660–1780") in ''Aschehougs Norgeshistorie'' (1996).
Selected works
''Folkevekst og flytting''(1979)
''Bot eller bryllup''with Jørgen Eliassen (1981)
''Far sjøl i stua og familien hans'' (1990)
References
1932 births
2017 deaths
Writers from Trondheim
University of Oslo alumni
Academic staff of the University of Oslo
20th-century Norwegian historians
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