Knut Sprauten (born 22 June 1948) is a Norwegian historian.
He hails from Namdal,[1] and took the cand.philol. degree in 1974.[2] He was hired as the head of a department in the National Archival Services of Norway in 1991.[3] In 1992 he released Byen ved festningen: fra 1536 til 1814, volume two of the work Oslo bys historie, covering the history of Oslo.[4] The other volumes were penned by Arnved Nedkvitne and Per G. Norseng (the period 1000 to 1536), Jan Eivind Myhre (the period 1814 to 1900), Knut Kjeldstadli (the period 1900 to 1948) and Edgeir Benum (the period 1948 to the 1990s).[5] Sprauten also contributed to the encyclopedia Norsk biografisk leksikon.[2] In late 2000 Sprauten was hired as the director of the Norwegian Institute of Local History.[6]
He resides at Jar.
References
edit- ^ Furseth, Ingrid (19 February 2001). "Trønder med nese for bygd og by". Aftenposten (in Norwegian).
- ^ a b "Knut Sprauten" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Institute of Local History. Archived from the original on 30 January 2011. Retrieved 11 March 2009.
- ^ "Offisielt fra statsråd" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 15 March 1991.
- ^ Krome, Oddvar (10 March 1992). "Oslo under Eikaberg – og ved festningen". Dagens Næringsliv (in Norwegian).
- ^ Entry at BIBSYS
- ^ "Sprauten ny direktør". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 3 October 2000.
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