Kåre Tønnesson, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Kåre Tønnesson

Norwegian historian

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1926

Date of Death: 26-Sep-2019

Profession: professor, historian

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Kåre Tønnesson

  • Kåre Dorenfeldt Tønnesson (1 January 1926 – 26 September 2019) was a Norwegian historian and professor at the University of Oslo. He finished his secondary education at Valler in 1944.
  • After enrolling in philological studies at the University of Oslo in 1945 he graduated with the cand.philol.
  • degree in history in 1952.
  • His master's thesis delved into causality in the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville.
  • In 1959 Tønnesson took the dr.philos.
  • degree with the thesis La défaite des sans-culottes, "The Defeat of the Sans-culottes".He was a lecturer in history at the University of Oslo from 1958, research fellow from 1960, docent from 1964 and professor from 1969 to 1991.
  • From 1973 to 1975 he was the dean at the Faculty of History and Philosophy.
  • After retiring from the professorship, he was a scholar in NAVF and the Research Council of Norway.
  • Larger works include volume four of Sentraladministrasjonens historie in 1979 and volume ten of Aschehougs verdenshistorie in 1985.
  • This was also translated into Swedish and was reissued in 2001.
  • In 1989 he marked the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution with the book Revolusjonen som rystet Europa.
  • The book was published in Norwegian and also translated into Swedish.
  • In 2007 he released a biography on Madame de Staël.A Festschrift in Tønnesson's honor was released in 1995,.
  • He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.Tønnesson was born in Ski, and grew up in Bærum.
  • He died in September 2019 aged 93.
  • He was the father of Stein Tønnesson.

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