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 town and municipality in Vestfold in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Larvik. The municipality of Larvik has about 46,364 inhabitants. The municipality has a 110&nbs ...

Vestfold Vestfold is a traditional region, a former county and a current electoral district in Eastern Norway. In 2020 the county became part of the much larger county of Vestfold og Telemark. Located on the western shore of the Oslofjord, it bordered t ...

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

Tromsø Tromsø (, , ; se, Romsa ; fkv, Tromssa; sv, Tromsö) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tromsø. Tromsø lies in Northern Norway. The municipality is the 21s ...

, and then moved to

Skien Skien () is a city and municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county in Norway. In modern times it is regarded as part of the traditional region of Grenland, although historically it belonged to Grenmar/Skiensfjorden, while Grenland referred the ...

. He earned his cand.jur. in 1887. He was appointed to the

National Archival Services of Norway The National Archival Services of Norway ( no, Arkivverket) 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 M ...

in 1894 and promoted to the position of archivist in 1898. He was a journalist for the newspaper '' Morgenbladet'' from 1890 to 1904, and edited the satirical magazine ''

Korsaren ''Korsaren'' ('The Corsair') was a Norwegian satirical magazine published between 1879 and 1926. History and profile ''Korsaren'' was established in 1879 by Jacob Breda Bull under the name ''Krydseren'', mimicking an older publication of the same ...

'' 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 Norwegian journalists Morgenbladet people Norwegian magazine editors Norwegian archivists {{norway-bio-stub