Sivert Langholm (19 May 1927 – 16 April 2022) was a Norwegian historian.

Life and career

Sivert Langholm was born in

Haugesund Haugesund () is a municipality on the North Sea in Rogaland county, Norway. While the population is greater in the neighboring Karmøy municipality, the main commercial and economic centre of the Haugaland region in northern Rogaland and southern ...

, and was the brother of

Odd Langholm Odd Langholm (born 8 November 1928) is a Norwegian economist and historian of economic thought. He spent his entire academic career at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, being a professor from 1966 to 1998. Personal l ...

. He was a cand.philol. by education, and was appointed professor at the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top univers ...

in 1976. His main areas of research were 19th-century

social history Social history, often called the new social history, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. In its "golden age" it was a major growth field in the 1960s and 1970s among scholars, and still is well represented in his ...

and the history of the university. Langholm also headed the editorial committee of the five-volume work ''Oslo bys historie'', covering the

history of Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of i ...

. The five volumes were penned by Arnved Nedkvitne and Per G. Norseng (the period 1000 to 1536), Knut Sprauten (the period 1536 to 1814), Jan Eivind Myhre (the period 1814 to 1900), Knut Kjeldstadli (the period 1900 to 1948) and

Edgeir Benum Edgeir Reidar Benum (born 13 October 1939) is a Norwegian historian. He was born in Verdal, and is the younger brother of athlete Pål Benum. He graduated from the University of Oslo with a cand.philol. degree in 1967, and worked as a scholarshi ...

(the period 1948 to the 1990s) respectively. Langholm was a member of the

Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ( no, Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Its purpose is to support the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway. History The Royal Frederick Unive ...

. From 1984 to 1988 he chaired the Norwegian Historical Association. For his seventieth birthday, a

Festschrift In academia, a ''Festschrift'' (; plural, ''Festschriften'' ) is a book honoring a respected person, especially an academic, and presented during their lifetime. It generally takes the form of an edited volume, containing contributions from the ...

was issued. It was edited by Knut Kjeldstadli, Jan Eivind Myhre and Tore Pryser. Sivert Langholm died on 16 April 2022, at the age of 94.

References

1927 births 2022 deaths 20th-century Norwegian historians Academic staff of the University of Oslo Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters People from Haugesund {{Norway-historian-stub