Sigurd Engelstad (2 August 1914 – 16 January 2006) was a Norwegian genealogist and archivist. Engelstad was born in

Hadsel Municipality Hadsel () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway, traditional district of Vesterålen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of ...

Nordland Nordland (; , , , ) is one of the three northernmost Counties of Norway, counties in Norway in the Northern Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Trøndelag in the south, Norrbotten County in Sweden to the east, Västerbotten County to t ...

county, Norway. He was the son of jurist Sigurd Engelstad (1878–1916) and older brother of writer

Carl Fredrik Engelstad Carl Johan Fredrik Engelstad (11 November 1915 – 1 October 1996) was a Norwegian writer, playwright, journalist, translator and theatre director. Personal life Engelstad was born in Hadsel Municipality as the son of jurist Sigurd Engelsta ...

. Through Carl Fredrik, Sigurd was the uncle of professor

Fredrik Engelstad Fredrik Engelstad (born 12 March 1944) is a Norwegian sociologist. He has written several books. He is the son of writer Carl Fredrik Engelstad and physician Vibeke Engelstad, and a nephew of archivist Sigurd Engelstad. He is married to prof ...

. Sigurd Engelstad published several genealogical works, and was a co-editor of the journal '' Norsk slektshistorisk tidsskrift'' from 1960 to 1975. From 1979 to 1983 he served as deputy archivist (''førstearkivar'') at the

National Archival Services of Norway The National Archives of Norway () is a Norwegian government agency that is responsible for keeping state archives, conducts control of public archiving and works to preserve private archives. It is subordinate to the Ministry of Culture and Ch ...

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1914 births 2006 deaths Norwegian archivists Norwegian genealogists {{Norway-historian-stub