Gisle Midttun (1881–1940) was a Norwegian
cultural historian and museologist. He was born in
Kvinnherad, and was a brother of philologist
Olav Midttun
Olav Midttun (8 April 1883 – 5 January 1972) was a Norwegian philologist, biographer, magazine editor, and the first national program director of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK).
He was born in Mauranger as a son of teacher J ...
. Midttun was assigned with the
Norwegian Museum of Cultural History from 1910. He was a co-editor of the multi-volume series ''Norske bygder'', where he also published several of his scientific works.
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1881 births
1940 deaths
People from Kvinnherad
20th-century Norwegian historians
Cultural historians
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