Johan Schreiner

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Johan Christian Schreiner (around 1940)

Johan Christian Schreiner (born May 25, 1903 in Drøbak , † October 8, 1967 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian historian.

Family and education

His parents were the professor Kristian Emil Schreiner (1874–1957) and the doctor and anthropologist Alette Flach (1873–1951). His first marriage was on March 7, 1928, the editor and politician Kirsten Moe (1903–1974). The marriage ended in divorce. In his second marriage he married Astri Høst (1907–1969) on May 2, 1930.

Johan Schreiner grew up in Kristiania and passed the examen artium there in 1921. He then studied philology and passed the state examination in 1927 with history as a major and German and Norwegian as a minor. 1932–1937 he was a university scholarship holder, from 1939 lecturer and from 1946 professor of history.

science

His historical research initially concerned the period of the unification of the empire, later also the decline in the late Middle Ages. Then he turned to trade policy and economic history. To do this, he stayed in various archives in France, Great Britain, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany. The result was extensive work on the Hanseatic League and the Dutch timber trade in Norway. He wrote his dissertation on this timber trade , which he submitted in 1933. He wrote on banking history, insurance history, and recent maritime history. 1953 wrote a volume in Aschehougs Weltgeschichte about the European Middle Ages, which encompassed 1000 years in 500 pages. He was one of the Marxist historians.

Honors

In 1924 he received the King's Gold Medal for excellent recent research. From 1939 he was a member of Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi . From 1947 to 1955 he was chairman of Den norske historiske forening. He also received the Oslo University Gold Medal for Norwegian Historical Research. In 1965 he received the Order of St. Olav as a first class knight.

Works (selection)

  • Tradisjon og saga om Olav den Hellige, Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi Skr. II 1926 no. 1, 1926
  • Translation of the Fagrskinna. En norsk kongesaga, 1926
  • Saga and oldfunn. Studier til Norges eldste historie, Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi Skr. II 1927 no. 4, 1927
  • Olav den hellige og Norges samling, 1929
  • Nederland og Norge 1625-1650. Trelastutførsel og commercial policy, dissertation., Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi Skr. II 1933 no. 3, 1933
  • Hanseatene og Norges nedgang, 1935
  • Hanseatic League and Norway on the 16th of August, 1941
  • Akers Sparebank gjennom hundre år 1843–1943, 1943
  • Norske Liv 1844–1944 (together with N. Solberg), 1948
  • Pest og prisfall i senmiddelalderen, Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi treatises. II 1948 no. 1, 1948
  • Middelalderen. Tusen års grotid, vol. 2 i Aschehougs verdenshistorie, 1953
  • Norsk skipsfart under krig og høykonjektiven 1914–1920, 1963

literature

  • Sølvi Sogner: Johan Schreiner. In: Norsk biografisk leksikon . Retrieved September 25, 2011

Remarks

  1. ↑ The "Examen artium" was the regular entrance examination for university, which required knowledge of Latin and Greek. So it corresponded to the Abitur, was accepted by the university until 1883, then by the grammar school.
  2. ↑ A university scholarship holder was a research assistant for five years, who used to submit a dissertation at the end and became a lecturer.
personal data
SURNAME Carpenter, Johan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schreiner, Johan Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Drøbak
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1967
Place of death Oslo