- Bergur Sigurbjörnsson
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name = Bergur Sigurbjörnsson
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birth_date =May 20 ,1917
birth_place =Iceland
death_date =30 September ,1992
death_place =Iceland
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occupation = Editor,politician
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children =Bergur Sigurbjörnsson (
May 20 1917 –July 28 2005 ) was an Icelandic magazine editor and politician.He studied business in the
University of Iceland , and later went on to study economics inStockholm University . He founded the weekly magazine, "Frjáls Þjóð " ('Free Nation') in 1952, and was the magazine's editor until 1967. He was a prominent supporter ofHannibal Valdimarsson 's campaign to be elected to theAlþing as an independent. He himself ventured into politics, forming theNational Preservation Party in 1953, for which he was a member between 1953 and 1956.He was a proponent of complete self-determination for Iceland, and as such, strongly opposed both Iceland's membership of
NATO and the 1951 American occupation of Iceland.
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