Øystein Sørensen
Øystein Sørensen (born 17 October 1954) is a Norwegian historian. A professor at the University of Oslo since 1996, he has published several books on the history of ideas, including Norwegian nationalism and national socialism, as well as general Norwegian World War II history.Born at Strømmen, he took the cand.philol. degree in 1981. His main inspiration for studying history was Jens Arup Seip and his inclination towards incorporating the history of ideas in general history. He published his first major work in 1983—the book ''Fra Marx til Quisling. Fem sosialisters vei til NS''. The book is a portrait of five Norwegian socialists who in the interwar period became national socialists: Eugène Olaussen, Sverre Krogh, Halvard Olsen, Albin Eines and Håkon Meyer. He then turned to Norwegian 19th-century history with the 1984 book ''1880-årene. 10 år som rystet Norge'', marking the 100th anniversary of the introduction of parliamentarianism in Norway. Crossing 19th-century history with liberalism was the 1988 thesis ''Anton Martin Schweigaards politiske tenkning'', on the ideology of politician Anton Martin Schweigaard. This work earned him the dr.philos. degree. He subsequently wrote two other works on right-wing extremism and national socialism in Norway: ''Hitler eller Quisling? Ideologiske brytninger i Nasjonal Samling 1940–45'' (1989) and ''Solkors og solidaritet. Høyreautoritær samfunnstenkning i Norge ca. 1930–1945'' (1991). One thread from the latter book—welfare policy—was followed in the 1993 ''Verdenskrig og velferd. Britiske, tyske og norske sosialpolitiske planer under annen verdenskrig''. Sørensen also contributed to the ''Norsk krigsleksikon 1940–45'', a 1995 encyclopaedia on World War II in Norway. He was promoted to professor at the University of Oslo in 1996. Sørensen is an elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters since 2010.
In 1993 and 1997 he biographed Fridtjof Nansen and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson respectively. This was a gateway to the topic of nationalism, and Sørensen headed a research project on the emergent Norwegian national identity in the 19th century. The project resulted in the 1998 book ''Jakten på det norske. Perspektiver på utviklingen av en norsk nasjonal identitet på 1800-tallet''; Sørensen was the editor and wrote the opening chapter, ''Hegemonikamp om det norske'', where he identified fourteen distinct projects of nation building in Norway between 1770 and 1945.
Between 2001 and 2003, Sørensen was a co-editor, together with Trond Berg Eriksen, of the work ''Norsk idéhistorie''. Sørensen wrote volume three of the work, ''Kampen om Norges sjel 1770–1905'', and co-wrote the sixth and last volume ''Et lite land i verden'' together with Trond Berg Eriksen. In 2004 he was the co-editor of ''Et rettferdig oppgjør?'' with Hans Fredrik Dahl, a work on the legal purge in Norway after World War II. ''Historien om det som ikke skjedde'', published in the same year, revolves around various counterfactual history events. Two years later, he published ''Den store sammensvergelsen. Historien om det hemmelige selskapet Illuminatus og dets mange ugjerninger'', about the many theories concerning the secret society Illuminati. In 2010, he published a book on totalitarian ideologies, entitled ''Drømmen om det fullkomne samfunn''.
Sørensen is also considered an international expert on the Donald Duck universe, and was behind the publishing of the complete, thirty-volume works of Carl Barks in Norwegian, Swedish and Danish in 2004. Sørensen's expertise also includes the world of The Phantom, and he was actively involved with the publishing of twenty volumes chronicling the different generations of Phantoms, each separate volume featuring a scholarly article, written by Sørensen, summarising the relevant historical themes. Provided by Wikipedia
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2by Anders M. Fjell, Markus H. Sneve, Donatas Sederevicius, Øystein Sørensen, Stine K. Krogsrud, Athanasia M. Mowinckel, Kristine B. WalhovdGet full text
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3by Stine K. Krogsrud, Athanasia M. Mowinckel, Donatas Sederevicius, Didac Vidal-Piñeiro, Inge K. Amlien, Yunpeng Wang, Øystein Sørensen, Kristine B. Walhovd, Anders M. FjellGet full text
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5by Donatas Sederevičius, Didac Vidal-Piñeiro, Øystein Sørensen, Koen van Leemput, Juan Eugenio Iglesias, Adrian V. Dalca, Douglas N. Greve, Bruce Fischl, Atle Bjørnerud, Kristine B. Walhovd, Anders M. FjellGet full text
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6by Didac Vidal-Pineiro, Nadine Parker, Jean Shin, Leon French, Håkon Grydeland, Andrea P. Jackowski, Athanasia M. Mowinckel, Yash Patel, Zdenka Pausova, Giovanni Salum, Øystein Sørensen, Kristine B. Walhovd, Tomas Paus, Anders M. Fjell, the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative and the Australian Imaging Biomarkers and Lifestyle flagship study of ageingGet full text
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7by Tetiana Gorbach, Sara Pudas, David Bartrés‐Faz, Andreas M. Brandmaier, Sandra Düzel, Richard N. Henson, Ane‐Victoria Idland, Ulman Lindenberger, Didac Macià Bros, Athanasia M. Mowinckel, Cristina Solé‐Padullés, Øystein Sørensen, Kristine B. Walhovd, Leiv Otto Watne, René Westerhausen, Anders M. Fjell, Lars NybergGet full text
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8by James M. Roe, Didac Vidal-Piñeiro, Øystein Sørensen, Andreas M. Brandmaier, Sandra Düzel, Hector A. Gonzalez, Rogier A. Kievit, Ethan Knights, Simone Kühn, Ulman Lindenberger, Athanasia M. Mowinckel, Lars Nyberg, Denise C. Park, Sara Pudas, Melissa M. Rundle, Kristine B. Walhovd, Anders M. Fjell, René Westerhausen, The Australian Imaging Biomarkers and Lifestyle Flagship Study of AgeingGet full text
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9by Anders Martin Fjell, Hakon Grydeland, Yunpeng Wang, Inge K Amlien, David Bartres-Faz, Andreas M Brandmaier, Sandra Düzel, Jeremy Elman, Carol E Franz, Asta K Håberg, Tim C Kietzmann, Rogier Andrew Kievit, William S Kremen, Stine K Krogsrud, Simone Kühn, Ulman Lindenberger, Didac Macía, Athanasia Monika Mowinckel, Lars Nyberg, Matthew S Panizzon, Cristina Solé-Padullés, Øystein Sørensen, Rene Westerhausen, Kristine Beate WalhovdGet full text
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