Gisle Midttun (1881–1940) was a Norwegian

cultural historian Culture ( ) is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, attitudes, and habits of the individuals in these gr ...

and museologist. He was born in

Kvinnherad Kvinnherad is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Sunnhordland, along the Hardangerfjorden. The municipality was the 5th in siz ...

, and was a brother of philologist Olav Midttun. Midttun was assigned with the

Norwegian Museum of Cultural History Norsk Folkemuseum (Norwegian Museum of Cultural History), at Bygdøy, Oslo, Norway, is a museum of cultural history with extensive collections of artifacts from all social groups and all regions of the country. It also incorporates a large open ...

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 {{cultural-hist-stub