Jostein Nerbøvik (10 July 1938 – 18 March 2004) was a 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 species; as well as the ...

. He was born in

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, and took his cand.philol. degree at the

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. He first worked at

Telemark University College Telemark University College (TUC, , HiT) was, until its merger, the fourth largest university college in Norway. The University College had about 7000 students, split between four locations in Bø, Notodden, Porsgrunn, Rauland and Drammen. Hier ...

, then at

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. He was appointed professor there in 1993, having taken the dr.philos. degree and the

University of Trondheim The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU; ) is a public university, public research university in Norway and the largest in terms of enrollment. The university's headquarters is located in Trondheim (city), Trondheim, with region ...

with the thesis ''Bygdefolkets krisehjelp 1925–35''. The opponents at the dispute were

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and

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. Nerbøvik was also instrumental in establishing the Ivar Aasen Centre. In 1973 Nerbøvik published his most well-known book; the general overview ''Norsk historie 1870–1905''. It was later remade into ''Norsk historie 1860–1914. Eit bondesamfunn i oppbrot'', published in 1999 as volume three of '' Samlagets norske historie'', a series on Norwegian history spanning the years 800 to 2000. As the title indicates, Nerbøvik stressed the activity of the Norwegian rural populace in the

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process in the second half of the nineteenth century. He died in March 2004 at

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, having gone through a lengthy struggle with cancer.

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20th-century Norwegian historians University of Oslo alumni Academic staff of Telemark University College Academic staff of Volda University College People from Møre og Romsdal People from Volda Nynorsk-language writers 1938 births 2004 deaths {{Norway-historian-stub