Egil Olaf Hartmann (1 April 1859 – 3 November 1906) was a Norwegian jurist, archivist, journalist and magazine editor. He was born in

Larvik Larvik () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Vestfold. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Larvik (town) ...

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. He was the son of Gudbrand Helenus Hartmann and Fredrikke Dorothea Christiane. The family lived briefly in the 1870s at

Tromsø Tromsø is a List of towns and cities in Norway, city in Tromsø Municipality in Troms county, Norway. The city is the administrative centre of the municipality as well as the administrative centre of Troms county. The city is located on the is ...

, and then moved to

Skien Skien () is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Grenland, although historically it belonged to Grenmar/Skiensfjorden, while Grenland referred the Norsjø area and Bø. The administrative ...

. He earned his

cand.jur. Candidate ( or ) is the name of various academic degrees, which are today mainly awarded in Scandinavia. The degree title was phased out in much of Europe through the 1999 Bologna Process, which has re-formatted academic degrees in Europe. The de ...

in 1887. He was appointed to 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 ...

in 1894 and promoted to the position of archivist in 1898. He was a journalist for the newspaper ''

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'' from 1890 to 1904, and edited the satirical magazine '' Korsaren'' from 1894 to 1903. The article collection ''Blink; fra dagliglivets psykologi'' was published posthumously in 1908.

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1859 births 1906 deaths People from Larvik Morgenbladet people Norwegian magazine editors Norwegian archivists {{Norway-journalist-stub