Sivert Langholm is a Norwegian historian.

He was born in Haugesund

Haugesund

is a town and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.-Location:Haugesund was separated from Torvastad as a town and municipality of its own in 1855. The rural municipality of Skåre was merged with Haugesund on January 1, 1958. Haugesund is a small municipality, only 73 km²...

, and was the brother of Odd Langholm

Odd Langholm

Odd Langholm is a Norwegian economist and historian of economic thought. He spent his entire adacemic career at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, being a professor from 1966 to 1998.-Personal life:...

. He is a cand.philol. by education, and was appointed 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 1976. His main areas of research have been 19th-century social history

Social history

Social history, often called the new social history, is a branch of History that includes history of ordinary people and their strategies of coping with life. In its "golden age" it was a major growth field in the 1960s and 1970s among scholars, and still is well represented in history departments...

 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. The five volumes were penned by 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...

 and Per G. Norseng

Per G. Norseng

Per Gudbrand Norseng is a Norwegian historian.He was born in Oslo, and took the cand.philol. degree at the University of Oslo in 1983 with the paper Administrativ prisfastsettelse i det norske middelaldersamfunnet...

 (the period 1000 to 1536), Knut Sprauten

Knut Sprauten

Knut Sprauten is a Norwegian historian.He hails from Namdal, and took the cand.philol. degree in 1974. He was hired as the head of a department in the National Archival Services of Norway in 1991. In 1992 he released Byen ved festningen: fra 1536 til 1814, volume two of the work Oslo bys historie,...

 (the period 1536 to 1814), 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....

 (the period 1814 to 1900), Knut Kjeldstadli

Knut Kjeldstadli

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...

 (the period 1900 to 1948) and Edgeir Benum

Edgeir Benum

Edgeir Reidar Benum 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 scholarship holder there from 1968 to 1972...

 (the period 1948 to the 1990s) respectively.

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...

, and from 1984 to 1988 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...

. For his seventieth birthday, a Festschrift

Festschrift

In academia, a Festschrift , is a book honoring a respected person, especially an academic, and presented during his or her lifetime. The term, borrowed from German, could be translated as celebration publication or celebratory writing...

 was issued. It was edited by Knut Kjeldstadli, Jan Eivind Myhre and Tore Pryser

Tore Pryser

Tore Pryser is a Norwegian historian, professor at the Lillehammer University College since 1993.Pryser was born in Oslo, and took the cand.philol. degree at the University of Oslo. He was appointed at the Lillehammer University College in 1975, became associate professor in 1978, and was promoted...

. Langholm resides in Hønefoss

Hønefoss

Hønefoss is a city in Buskerud county, Norway, and the center of the municipality of Ringerike.In 1852, Hønefoss received town status and was separated from Norderhov. Hønefoss celebrated its 150th year of township in 2002...

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