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Oddbjørn Knutsen

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Oddbjørn Knutsen (23 July 1953 – 11 August 2019) was a Norwegian political scientist.

He was born in Hadsel. After taking the dr.philos. degree in 1985 with the thesis Politiske verdier, konfliktlinjer og ideologi – den norske politiske kulturen i komparativt perspektiv he worked at the Institute for Social Research from 1986 to 1992. From 1993 he was a professor at the University of Oslo, serving until his death at age 66 in 2019.[1][2]

He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters,[3] He chaired the Norwegian Political Science Association from 2010 to 2017 and the Nordic Political Science Association from 2011 to 2014, and was a board member of the European Consortium for Political Research from 2018 to his death.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Oddbjørn Knutsen". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  2. ^ a b Semb, Anne Julie (12 September 2019). "Oddbjørn Knutsen". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). p. 68.
  3. ^ "Medlemmer" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Retrieved 29 October 2019.