Sivert Langholm (19 May 1927 – 16 April 2022) was a Norwegian historian.

Life and career

Sivert Langholm was born in

Haugesund Haugesund () is a municipalities of Norway, municipality and List of towns and cities in Norway, town on the North Sea in Rogaland county, Norway. As of December 2023, the municipality of Haugesund has a population of 37,855. The vast majority of ...

, and was the brother of Odd Langholm. He was a cand.philol. by education, and was appointed professor at the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo (; ) is a public university, public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation#Europe, oldest university in Norway. Originally named the Royal Frederick Univ ...

in 1976. His main areas of research were 19th-century

social history Social history, often called history from below, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. Historians who write social history are called social historians. Social history came to prominence in the 1960s, spreading f ...

and the history of the university. Langholm also headed the editorial committee of the five-volume work ''Oslo bys historie'', covering the

history of Oslo Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022, and ...

. The five volumes were penned by Arnved Nedkvitne and Per G. Norseng (the period 1000 to 1536), Knut Sprauten (the period 1536 to 1814), Jan Eivind Myhre (the period 1814 to 1900),

Knut Kjeldstadli Knut Kjeldstadli (born 6 June 1948 in Oslo) is a Norwegian historian. Kjeldstadli completed his examen artium at Oslo Cathedral School in 1967 before studying English and social economics at the University of Oslo, where he completed his master in ...

(the period 1900 to 1948) and Edgeir Benum (the period 1948 to the 1990s) respectively. Langholm was a member of the

Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Its purpose is to support the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway. History The Royal Frederick University in Christiania was establis ...

. From 1984 to 1988 he chaired the

Norwegian Historical Association The Norwegian Historical Association (, HIFO) is a Norwegian historical History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narrati ...

. For his seventieth birthday, a

Festschrift In academia, a ''Festschrift'' (; plural, ''Festschriften'' ) is a book honoring a respected person, especially an academic, and presented during their lifetime. It generally takes the form of an edited volume, containing contributions from the h ...

was issued. It was edited by Knut Kjeldstadli, Jan Eivind Myhre and

Tore Pryser Tore Pryser (born 9 January 1945) is a Norwegian historian who has served as professor at the Lillehammer University College since 1993. Born in Oslo, he took a cand.philol. degree at the University of Oslo. He was appointed at the Lillehamme ...

. Sivert Langholm died on 16 April 2022, at the age of 94.

References

1927 births 2022 deaths 20th-century Norwegian historians Academic staff of the University of Oslo Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters People from Haugesund {{Norway-historian-stub