Helge Refsum
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Helge Refsum (15 February 1897 - 8 September 1976) was a Norwegian
jurist A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Uni ...
and politician for the Centre Party. Refsum received his law degree in 1921, and was secretary at the Ministry of Social Affairs from 1921 to 1926. He was appointed registrar in 1922 and in 1949 he became presiding judge at
Gulating Court of Appeal The Gulating Court of Appeal ( no, Gulating lagmannsrett) is one of six Court of appeal (Norway), courts of appeal in the Norway, Kingdom of Norway. The Court is located in the city of Bergen (city), Bergen. The court has jurisdiction over the cou ...
. From 1965 to 1972, he sat on the
Norwegian Nobel Committee The Norwegian Nobel Committee ( no, Den norske Nobelkomité) selects the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize each year on behalf of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel's estate, based on instructions of Nobel's will. Five members are appointed by ...
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Norwegian judges 1897 births 1976 deaths {{Norway-politician-1890s-stub