Reidar Omang, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Reidar Omang

Norwegian historian

Date of Birth: 26-Nov-1897

Date of Death: 15-Oct-1964

Profession: librarian, historian, archivist

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Reidar Omang

  • Reidar Omang (26 November 1897 – 15 October 1964) was a Norwegian historian, librarian and archivist.Reidar Omang was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway.
  • His father, Simen Oscar Fredrik Omang (1867-1953), was a noted botanist.
  • Omang took matriculation from the Skien public school in 1916.
  • He took his Cand.mag.
  • degree at the University of Oslo in 1924 and Cand.
  • philol.
  • in 1930.He was a teacher in Telemark at Kviteseid from 1918 to 1919 and at Skien from 1919 to 1920.
  • From 1923-1935 he was employed at the University of Oslo Library.
  • During 1928-1935, he was also chief of the Manuscript Collection.
  • From 1928 to 1945, he was librarian at the Norwegian Royal Palace.
  • In 1935, he was appointed chief of the Foreign Ministry archives.
  • a position he had until 1960.During the Nazi occupation of Norway, he led the evacuation of documents from the Foreign Ministry archives to Sweden.
  • In 1941 he went to London and worked in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs until liberation.
  • He also edited several governmental documents on Norway, including treatises on Norway's relation to Sweden, on the Altmark Incident, and on the relation between the government-in-exile and the resistance movement.
  • After the war, Reidar Omang published the two volume series Norsk utenrikstjeneste from 1955 to 1959.
  • From 1961 he served as national archivist, a position he held until his death in 1964.
  • Reidar Omang was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1957.
  • He was also knighted by first class of the Royal Order of St.
  • Olav.

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