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Place of Birth: Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
About Arne Husveg
- Arne Husveg (11 February 1933 – 16 November 2004) was a Norwegian organizational leader and disability rights activist. He was born in Stavanger, and became blind at the age of 2.
- He took his examen artium in 1952, studied at the universities of Exeter, Vienna and Florence until 1955 and worked for some years as a translator.
- From 1963 to 1971 he worked as a physiotherapist.Husveg was a co-founder of the Norwegian Federation of Organisations of Disabled People already in 1950.
- He was also involved in the Norwegian Association of the Blind and Partially Sighted, and participated at their national convention for the first time in 1951.
- He chaired the organization for one term, from 1969 to 1971, and from 1971 to 1994 he was employed as their secretary-general.He also chaired the Federation of Organisations of Disabled People from 1979 to 1983, having been a board member from 1969 to 1979.
- He co-founded the European Blind Union in 1984, and was board member for many years as well as president from 1987 to 1996.
- From 2000 to his death he was vice president of the World Blind Union.
- He represented the Socialist Left Party in Oslo city council.Arne Husveg was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St.
- Olav and the World Blind Union's highest award, the Louis Braille Medal.
- He was married twice—in 1956, he married Anne Bolley and in 1987, he married college lecturer Else Momrak Haugan.
- He died in November 2004 in Oslo.
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