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Gustav Storm (18 June 1845 – 23 February 1903) was a Norwegian

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

, a professor at the Royal Frederick University in Christiania from 1877. He was a driving force in the research of

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and literature of the

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Personal life

Storm was born in

Rendal Municipality Rendal is a List of former municipalities of Norway, former municipality in the old Hedmark county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1880 when it was divided into Ytre Rendal Municipality and Øvre Rendal Munic ...

Hedmark Hedmark () was a Counties of Norway, county in Norway from 1 January 1919 to 31 December 2019, bordering Trøndelag to the north, Oppland to the west, Akershus to the south, and Sweden to the east. The county administration is in Hamar. Hedmar ...

county, as the son of Ole Johan Storm and Hanna Jørgine Mathilde Breda. The family moved to Lardal Municipality in

Vestfold Vestfold () is a county and a current electoral district in Norway. Located on the western shore of the Oslofjord, it borders Buskerud and Telemark counties. The county administration is located in Tønsberg, Norway's oldest city, and the larg ...

, where his father was a

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. When Gustav was five years old, his father died, and the family subsequently moved to Christiania (now Oslo). He was a brother of linguist Johan Storm and a cousin of zoologist Vilhelm Storm. He died at

Bygdøy Bygdøy or Bygdø is a peninsula situated on the western side of Oslo, Norway. Administratively, Bygdøy is part of the borough of Frogner. It historically was part of Aker Municipality and became part of Oslo in 1948. Bygdøy is a popular recr ...

in 1903.

Career

Storm finished his secondary education in 1862. He studied

philology Philology () is the study of language in Oral tradition, oral and writing, written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also de ...

at the Royal Frederick University in Christiania, graduating as cand.philol. in 1868. He then worked as teacher for some years, and also carried out research in the fields philology and history. Among his works were ''Snorre Sturlassøns Historieskrivning, en kritisk Undersøgelse'' from 1873, and his thesis ''Sagnkredsene om Karl den Store og Didrik af Bern hos de nordiske Folk'' from 1874. He was appointed professor of history in 1877. Storm became a central person in history research and education at the university. He is regarded one of the most important investigators of

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in the science of

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in Norway. He chaired the society for primary sources, ''Kildeskriftforeningen'', from 1886 to 1903, and the

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from 1899 to 1903. He was secretary general of the learned society, the

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from 1884 to 1903. His translation of into Norwegian in the late 1890s was the basis for a popular edition of

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's work. Among his publications are treatments of the

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, studies of

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's travels to

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, and Columbus' discovery of the American continent. Storm was decorated Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1891, and Commander, First Class in 1901. He was a Commander, Second Class of the Spanish

Order of Isabella the Catholic The Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic (; Abbreviation, Abbr.: OYC) is a knighthood and one of the three preeminent Order of merit, orders of merit bestowed by the Kingdom of Spain, alongside the Order of Charles III (established in 1771) and ...

, and Knight of the Swedish

Order of the Polar Star The Royal Order of the Polar Star (Swedish language, Swedish: ''Kungliga Nordstjärneorden''), sometimes translated as the Royal Order of the North Star, is a Swedish order of chivalry created by Frederick I of Sweden, King Frederick I on 23 F ...

Selected works

*''Om den gamle norrøne literatur'' (1869) *''Snorre Sturlassøns Historieskrivning, en kritisk Undersøgelse'' (1873) *''Sagnkretsene om Karl den Store og Didrik af Bern hos de nordiske folk'' (1874) *''Kritiske bidrag til vikingetidens historie'' (1876) *''Ragnar Lodbrok og Lodbrokssønnerne'' (1877) *''Vikingetidens tidligste udgangspunkter'' (1879) *''Studier over Vinlandsreiserne, Vinlands Geografi og Etnografi'' (1888) *''Maria Stuart'' (1891) *''Christofer Columbus og Amerikas opdagelse'' (1892) *''Olav den Hellige'' (1893) *''Norges gamle Vaaben, Farver og Flag'' (1894) *''Snorre Sturlasons Norges Kongesagaer'' (1896–99) *''Dronning Margretes valg i i Norge'' (1900)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Storm, Gustav 1845 births 1903 deaths People from Rendalen 19th-century Norwegian historians Old Norse studies scholars Academic staff of the University of Oslo Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Knights of the Order of the Polar Star Commanders of the Order of Isabella the Catholic