Trond Berg Eriksen (born 3 October 1945) is a Norwegian historian of ideas, non-fiction writer and magazine editor. He was born in

Øvre Eiker Øvre Eiker is a municipality in the traditional and electoral district Buskerud in Viken county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Eiker. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Hokksund. The old municipal ...

Buskerud Buskerud () is a former county and a current electoral district in Norway, bordering Akershus, Oslo, Oppland, Sogn og Fjordane, Hordaland, Telemark and Vestfold. The region extends from the Oslofjord and Drammensfjorden in the southeast to Ha ...

. His thesis, from 1975, was on the ethics of Aristoteles. He 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 ...

from 1990. He edited the magazine '' Samtiden'' from 1989 to 1993, and has published a number of books. He is a well-known intellectual in the Norwegian public sphere, particularly for popularization of European philosophy and intellectual history.

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1945 births Living people People from Øvre Eiker 20th-century Norwegian historians Academic staff of the University of Oslo Norwegian non-fiction writers Norwegian magazine editors 21st-century Norwegian historians {{Norway-academic-bio-stub