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(1806–1876) and his wife Gerhardine Pauline Bergh (1817–1884). He was a great-grandnephew of vicar Jacob Schavland, nephew of vicar Gerhard B. Bergh and a brother of Sigvald Skavlan, Einar Skavlan, Sr.,

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and Harald Skavlan. He graduated from Trondhjem Cathedral School in 1868 and took the

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degree in 1872. He spent his early career as a school teacher, but also researched history. He was given a royal scholarship in 1877 to conduct studies at the

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, and in 1878 he published his first book ''Historiske Billeder fra den nyere Tid i Danmark, Norge og tildels Sverige''. In 1881 he received a parliamentary grant to write a history on

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; he released books on this topic in 1882, 1884, 1892 and 1899. He worked as archivist in Trondhjem from 1890 to 1891, and at the

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from 1899. After 1900 his research was hampered by illness. He did not marry, and died in February 1920 in

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1847 births 1920 deaths 20th-century Norwegian historians People from Møre og Romsdal People educated at the Trondheim Cathedral School 19th-century Norwegian historians {{Norway-historian-stub