Einhart Lorenz (born 17 February 1940) is a German-Norwegian

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

, and professor emeritus 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 ...

. Among his publications are his thesis from 1978, in german: Norwegische Arbeiterbewegung und Kommunistische Internationale 1913–1930, Willy Brandt in Norwegen (1989), Exil in Norwegen (1992) and Willy Brandt. Deutscher-Europäer-Weltbürger (2013), in no, Willy Brandt i Norge, eksilåra 1933–1940 from 1989, ''Samefolket i historien'' from 1991, ''Det er ingen sak å få partiet lite. NKP 1923-1931'' (1983), ''Veien mot Holocaust'' (2003), ''Jødisk historie, kultur og identiteter'' (2010) and ''Willy Brandt. Et politisk liv'' (2013). He was the first Henrik Steffens Professor at the

Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative ...

from 1998 to 2001.

Personal life

Lorenz was born in Hirschberg (today

Jelenia Góra Jelenia Góra (pron. ; Polish: ; german: Hirschberg im Riesengebirge; Exonym: ''Deer Mountain''; szl, Jelyniŏ Gōra) is a historic city in southwestern Poland, within the historical region of Lower Silesia. Jelenia Góra is situated in the Low ...

) on 17 February 1940.

References

1940 births Living people 20th-century Norwegian historians Academic staff of the University of Oslo Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin 21st-century Norwegian historians {{norway-historian-stub