Knut Kjeldstadli is a Norwegian historian.

He took his doctorate in 1989 with the paper Jerntid. Fabrikksystem og arbeidere ved Christiania Spigerverk og Kværner Brug fra om lag 1890 til 1940. He became adjunct professor at the University of Bergen

University of Bergen

The University of Bergen is located in Bergen, Norway. Although founded as late as 1946, academic activity had taken place at Bergen Museum as far back as 1825. The university today serves more than 14,500 students...

 in 1992, and then professor at the University of Oslo

University of Oslo

The University of Oslo , formerly The Royal Frederick University , is the oldest and largest university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the recently established University of Berlin...

 in 1996.

He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway.-History:The University of Oslo was established in 1811. The idea of a learned society in Christiania surfaced for the first time in 1841. The city of Throndhjem had no university, but had a learned...

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Kjeldstadli is also involved in politics, in the Socialist Left Party

Socialist Left Party (Norway)

The Socialist Left Party or SV, is a Norwegian left-wing political party. At one point one of the smallest parties in Parliament, it became the fourth-largest political party in Norway for the first time in the 2001 parliamentary election, and has been so ever since...

 as well as ATTAC.

Kjeldstadli was awarded the Brage Prize

Brage Prize

The Brage Prize is a Norwegian literature prize that is awarded annually by the Norwegian Book Prize foundation...

 in 2003 for serving as editor of Norsk innvandringshistorie.

He was the son of historian Sverre Kjeldstadli

Sverre Kjeldstadli

Sverre Arnljot Breste Kjeldstadli was a Norwegian historian.During World War II he was a courier for Milorg. His dr.philos. thesis from 1959, Hjemmestyrkene...

, paternal grandson of trade unionist Lars Kjeldstadli, maternal grandson of editor Daniel Grini and grandnephew of politician Sigvart Grini

Sigvart Grini

Nils Sigvart Hansen Grini was a Norwegian farmer and politician for the Agrarian Party.He was born at Grini in Gjerpen as a son of farmers Hans Martin Danielsen Grini and Anne Helvig Gulliksdatter . He was a brother of editor Daniel Grini. His niece married Sverre Kjeldstadli, and mothered Knut...

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Selected bibliography

• Det Norske Arbeiderpartiet: fra folkebevegelse til statsstøtte, 1973
• "Arbeider, bonde, våre hære..." – Arbeiderpartiet og bøndene 1930–1939, 1978
• Jerntid. Fabrikksystem og arbeidere ved Christiania Spigerverk og Kværner Brug fra om lag 1890 til 1940, 1989
• Den delte byen: 1900–1948, 1990 (volume 4 in Oslo bys historie)
• Fortida er ikke hva den engang var. En innføring i historiefaget, 1992
• Et splittet folk 1905–35, 1994 (volume 10 in Aschehougs Norgeshistorie)
• Oslo – spenningenes by- oslohistorie, 1995, with Jan Eivind Myhre
  Jan Eivind Myhre
  Jan Eivind Myhre is a Norwegian historian.He was a professor II at the University of Tromsø from 1991 to 2001, became a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 1994 and then at the University of Oslo in 1996....
  
  
• Norsk innvandringshistorie (ed.), 2004