Ottar Dahl (5 January 1924 – 4 April 2011) was a Norwegian historian and historiographer. Dahl was born in Nannestad. He took the dr. philos. degree in 1957, worked at the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo (; ) is a public university, public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation#Europe, oldest university in Norway. Originally named the Royal Frederick Univ ...

as a scholarship holder from 1957, ''docent'' from 1960 and professor from 1966 to 1991. He then retired to a position as

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. Dahl was a member of the

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. From 1972 to 1975 he chaired the Norwegian Historical Association. He died in April 2011.Death announcement, '' Budstikka'' 7 April 2011, p. 64

Selected bibliography

*''Historisk materialisme. Historiesynet hos Koht og Bull'', 1952 *''Om årsaksproblemer i historisk forskning'', 1957 *''Norsk historieforskning i det 19. og 20. århundre'', 1959 *''Grunntrekk i historieforskningens metodelære'', 1967 *''Problemer i historiens teori'', 1986 *''Fra konsens til katastrofe - kapitler av fascismens historie i Italia'', 1996

References

1924 births 2011 deaths People from Nannestad 20th-century Norwegian historians Academic staff of the University of Oslo Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters {{Norway-historian-stub