Per Gudbrand Norseng is a Norwegian historian.

He was born in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

, and took the cand.philol. degree 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 1983 with the paper Administrativ prisfastsettelse i det norske middelaldersamfunnet. He has been a research fellow

Research fellow

The title of research fellow is used to denote a research position at a university or similar institution, usually for academic staff or faculty members. A research fellow may act either as an independent investigator or under the supervision of a principal investigator...

 at the University of Oslo, an associate professor at the University of Trondheim and Oslo University College

Oslo University College

Oslo University College , Norwegian: Høgskolen i Oslo is the largest state university college in Norway, with more than 11,000 students and approx. 1100 employees...

, senior research librarian at the University Library of Oslo

University Library of Oslo

The University Library of Oslo is a library connected to the University of Oslo.Like the University, it was established in 1811 with Georg Sverdrup as the first head librarian. It originally doubled as the Norwegian national library, and was located at the old University of Oslo campus.In 1913 the...

, a senior curator at the Follo Museum and Berg-Kragerø Museum. He was then the chief curator, and from 2010 the director of the Norwegian Maritime Museum

Norwegian Maritime Museum

The Norwegian Maritime Museum , previously known as the Norsk Sjøfartsmuseum, founded in 1914, is located at Bygdøynesveien on the Bygdøy peninsula, on the western side of Oslo, Norway....

. From 1993 to 1996 he chaired the Norwegian Historical Association

Norwegian Historical Association

The Norwegian Historical Association is a Norwegian historical organization.It was founded in 1869 by Michael Birkeland and Ludvig Ludvigsen Daae. Its purpose was to publish the academic journal Historisk Tidsskrift, which it commenced in 1871...

.

His most important publications include Byen under Eikaberg: fra byens oppkomst til 1536, co-written with Arnved Nedkvitne

Arnved Nedkvitne

Arnved Nedkvitne is a Norwegian mediæval historian. He is Professor Emeritus of Mediæval History at the University of Trondheim and the University of Oslo. He held the chair of Norwegian mediæval history at the University of Trondheim from 1991 to 1993 and at the University of Oslo from 1993 to...

. It was published in 1991 as volume one of Oslo bys historie (History of Oslo) and revised in 2000 and released as Middelalderbyen ved Bjørvika: Oslo 1000-1536. He was also the project leader of the work Østfolds historie (History of Østfold county), He co-wrote volume one and two; Øst for Folden (released 2003) and I Borgarsysle (with Sven G. Eliassen

Sven G. Eliassen

Sven G. Eliassen is a Norwegian historian.He was born in Gøteborg, and took the cand.philol. degree at the University of Oslo in 1973 with the paper Hafslund hovedgård og sagbruk. Oversikt over Hafslunds historie i tiden ca. 1600-1786. He was hired at Borgarsyssel Museum in 1972, and became the...

, released 2005).