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About Sjur Brækhus
- Sjur Brækhus (19 June 1918 – 19 May 2009) was a Norwegian legal scholar and judge. He was born in Bergen as a son of captain and ship-owner Sigurd Alfred Brækhus (1879–1952) and Hilda Sverresdatter Klingenberg (1884–1957).
- He finished his secondary education at Frogner School in 1936 and graduated with the cand.jur.
- degree at the University of Oslo in 1941.
- He was a deputy judge in Eiker, Modum and Sigdal District Court from 1941 to 1942.
- He became a research fellow at the University of Oslo in 1945 and took the dr.juris degree in 1947 with the thesis Meglerens rettslige stilling.
- He was married twice, the first time from 1945 to 1957.He was hired as a docent at the University of Oslo in 1947, and was promoted to professor already in 1948.
- He remained here until retirement in 1988.
- He served as dean from 1963 to 1967.
- His main field was private law in general, and his main work was Omsetning og kreditt, released in four volumes between 1985 and 1998.
- Sub-fields of note were maritime law, bankruptcy law and court law.
- Other well-known books are Norsk tingsrett (1964 with Axel Hærem), Bergning (1968), Konkursrett (1969), and Sjørett, voldgift og lovvalg (1998).
- He edited the journal Arkiv for Sjørett from 1951 to 1970.He was also an acting presiding judge in Eidsivating Court of Appeal in 1953 as well as an arbitration court judge.
- He was a proponent for the Riksmål written form of the Norwegian language, and was a member of the Norwegian Language Council from 1976 to 1991 and the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature from 1976 to his death.He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1950 and held honorary degrees at the University of Copenhagen and Stockholm University.
- He was decorated as a Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St.
- Olav in 1981, a Commander of the Order of the White Rose of Finland in 1990 as well as a Knight of the Order of the Polar Star.He resided at Stabekk.
- He died in May 2009.
- He died on May 19, 2009.
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