Kåre Lunden (8 April 1930 – 18 July 2013) was a Norwegian historian, and
Professor Emeritus
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of History at the
University of Oslo
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Lunden was born in
Naustdal. He originally studied agronomy at the
Norwegian College of Agriculture, graduating in 1957. He then worked six years as a civil servant in the
Norwegian Ministry of Church Affairs and Education, before taking up history studies. There he graduated as
cand.philol. in 1965. He was appointed by the
King-in-Council as Professor of History at the
University of Oslo
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in 1976.
He is a member of the
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
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History
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He was an able
javelin thrower while studying. He represented the sports team of the Norwegian College of Agriculture, NLHI, and threw 50.27 metres in 1954.
He was a brother of poet
Eldrid Lunden
Eldrid Lunden (born 5 October 1940) is a Norwegian poet, and 1996 became Norway's first professor in creative writing, at Telemark University College. She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1989, and the Brage Prize honorary award in 2000. She ...
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Selected bibliography
*''Norge under Sverre-ætten'', volume 3 of ''Cappelens Norgeshistorie'', 1976
*''Biletet av fortida: innhogg i historisk fagteori'', 1991
*''Norsk grålysing'', 1992
*''Den vakre snikkarkona: frå Geoffrey Chaucers Canterbury-forteljingar og andre mellomaldervers'' (ed.), 1992
*''Nasjon eller union? Refleksjonar og røynsler'', 1993
*''Dialog med fortida. Historie om ..'', 1995
*''Norges Landbrukshistorie'', volume 2, 2002
References
List of publications in FRIDA
1930 births
2013 deaths
People from Naustdal
20th-century Norwegian historians
Historians of agriculture
Social historians
Norwegian College of Agriculture alumni
Academic staff of the University of Oslo
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Norwegian male javelin throwers
20th-century Norwegian sportsmen
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