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About Knut Sprauten
- Knut Sprauten (born 22 June 1948) 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, covering the history of Oslo.
- 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).
- Sprauten also contributed to the encyclopedia Norsk biografisk leksikon.
- In late 2000 Sprauten was hired as the director of the Norwegian Institute of Local History.He resides at Jar.
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