Ottar Dahl

Ottar Dahl (5 January 1924 – 4 April 2011) was a Norwegian historian and historiographer.

He was born in Nannestad. He took the dr. philos. degree in 1957, worked at the University of Oslo as a scholarship holder from 1957, docent from 1960 and professor from 1966 to 1991. He is currently professor emeritus at the same university.

He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.^[1] From 1972 to 1975 he chaired the Norwegian Historical Association.^[2] He died in April 2011.^[3]

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

1. ^ "Gruppe 1: Historie" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. http://www.dnva.no/c26848/artikkel/vis.html?tid=27637. Retrieved 26 October 2009. 
2. ^ "Historikk" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Historical Association. http://hifo.b.uib.no/om-hifo/historikk/. Retrieved 28 April 2011. 
3. ^ Death announcement, Budstikka 7 April 2011, p. 64

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Name	Dahl, Ottar
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Date of birth	5 January 1924
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Date of death	4 April 2011
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