Ottar Dahl Explained

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

Dahl 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 then retired to a position as professor emeritus.

Dahl 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Gruppe 1: Historie. Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Norwegian. 26 October 2009.
2. Web site: Historikk. Norwegian Historical Association. Norwegian. 28 April 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20140413155500/http://hifo.b.uib.no/om-hifo/historikk/. 13 April 2014. dead.
3. Death announcement, Budstikka 7 April 2011, p. 64