Narve Bjørgo (3 May 1936 – 9 March 2025) was a Norwegian historian.

Life and career

Bjørgo was born in

Meland Meland is a List of former municipalities of Norway, former municipality in the Nordhordland district in the old Hordaland county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1923 until its dissolution on 1 January 2020 when it was merged into the ne ...

on 3 May 1936. He graduated from the

University of Bergen The University of Bergen () is a public university, public research university in Bergen, Norway. As of 2021, the university had over 4,000 employees and 19,000 students. It was established by an act of parliament in 1946 consolidating several sci ...

in 1964 and worked as a

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until 1970. Then, for two years, he was a

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and

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. In 1973, he was appointed professor of history at the

University of Tromsø The University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway ( Norwegian: ''Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet''; Northern Sami: ''Romssa universitehta – Norgga árktalaš universitehta'') is a state university in Norway a ...

. He served as

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from 1984 to 1985, and rector from 1985 to 1989. He was CEO of

NAVF The Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities (Norges almenvitenskapelige forskningsråd, NAVF) was one of Norway's five research councils. It was established in 1949. NAVF was responsible for funding basic research in all discipline ...

from 1991 to 1993, and professor at the

from 1993 to 2006, before retiring. In 2008, he was given an

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at the University of Tromsø. Bjørgo was a member of the board of

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from 1974 to 1978, of the

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from 1974 to 1980. He chaired the board of the

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from 1994 to 1995, the

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from 1994 to 1996, the Ivar Aasen Centre from 1998 to 2002 and the Norwegian Agency of Quality Assurance in Education from 2002 to 2005. Bjørgo settled at

Frekhaug Frekhaug is a village in Alver Municipality, located in Vestland county, Norway. The village sits at the southern tip of the island of Holsnøy. Prior to 2020, the village was the administrative centre of the old municipality of Meland. The vi ...

. He died on 9 March 2025, at the age of 88.

References

1936 births 2025 deaths People from Meland 20th-century Norwegian historians University of Bergen alumni Academic staff of the University of Bergen Academic staff of the University of Tromsø Rectors of the University of Tromsø {{Norway-historian-stub