Edvard Bull (22 November 1914 – 15 December 1986), Edvard Bull d.y. or Edvard Bull Jr. was a Norwegian professor and historian.
Biography
He was born in
Kristiania
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) 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 i ...
as the son of professor and politician
Edvard Bull, Sr.
Edvard Bull (4 December 1881 – 26 August 1932) was a Norwegian historian and politician for the Labour Party. He took the doctorate in 1912 and became a professor at the University of Kristiania in 1917, and is known for writings on a broad r ...
and Lucie Juliane Antonette Voss 1886–1970). He was active member of the
Workers' Youth League (AUF).
[ During the ]occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany
The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until the ...
he was imprisoned and sent to labour work in Kirkenes
Kirkenes (; ; Skolt Sami: ''Ǩeârkknjargg;'' fi, Kirkkoniemi; ; russian: Киркенес) is a town in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, in the far northeastern part of Norway. The town lies on a peninsula along the Bøk ...
, and later incarcerated at Grini
Grini is a district in northeastern Bærum, Norway.
Concentration camp
The name Grini is best known from the concentration camp of the same name, but this camp lay further west and had no actual connection to the Grini area.
History
The name ...
.University of Oslo
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and was appointed to the cand.philol. in 1939; dr.philos.
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in 1958.
He was a lecturer in Oslo from 1939 to 1948, curator at the Norwegian Folk Museum from 1950 to 1962, professor of history at the Norwegian College of Teaching, (later the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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) from 1963 to 1981 and rector there from 1966 to 1969.
He wrote a large number of articles and several books, in particular on social history and the history of the Norwegian labour movement. Among his books is volume one of ''Arbeiderbevegelsens historie i Norge
''Arbeiderbevegelsens historie i Norge'' ( en, History of the Workers' Movement in Norway) is a six-volume work about the labour movement history of Norway. It was released between 1985 and 1990 by Tiden Norsk Forlag.
It was not the first work ab ...
'' a six-volume history series, published by Tiden Norsk Forlag
Tiden Norsk Forlag is a Norwegian publishing company owned by Gyldendal Norsk Forlag. It publishes fiction and general literature.
History
Tiden was founded in 1933 by the Norwegian Labour Party. In 1936 it bought Fram Forlag. In the early years ...
between the years 1985–1990.
Personal life
He was married in 1939 to Andrea Nilsine Rockmann Olsen.
Selected works
*''Arbeiderklassen blir til. 1850–1900''
*'' Retten til en fortid sosialhistoriske artikler''
*''Norge i den rike verden tiden etter 1945''
* '' Klassekamp og fellesskap 1920-1945''
References
1914 births
1986 deaths
Writers from Oslo
Norwegian resistance members
Grini concentration camp survivors
World War II resistance press activists
20th-century Norwegian historians
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