Jørn Sandnes (3 May 1926 – 12 April 2007) was a Norwegian historian. He was born in

Snåsa Snåsa (; sma, Snåase) is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Innherred region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Snåsa. Other villages include Agle and Jørstad. Snåsa is one of t ...

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. He was appointed Professor in Trondheim from 1975 to 1992, From 1984 he served as the first

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at the

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. Among his works is ''Norsk Stadnamnleksikon'' from 1976 (jointly with Ola Stemshaug), and ''Avfolking og union'', volume four of ''Cappelens Norgeshistorie'' from 1977. He was the principal editor of the six volumes of ''Trondheims historie'' from 1997. Sandnes was the younger brother of politician Arne Sandnes.

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1926 births 2007 deaths People from Snåsa 20th-century Norwegian historians Academic staff of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Rectors of universities and colleges in Norway {{norway-historian-stub