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100 unusual facts about University of Oslo


Alta, Norway

Their bodies were buried in graves just outside the Kåfjord Church graveyard in the village of Kåfjord in Alta, but their heads were sent on to the Anatomisk Institute at the Kong Medical Frederiks University in Oslo, where they were kept for more than a century as part of the university's skull collections.

Anders Jahre

Jahre left monies for the two Awards named after him, for research in basic and clinical medicine, and administered by the University of Oslo.

Andersen Escarpment

The name was proposed by cartographer Peter F. Bermel and geologist Dr. Arthur B. Ford, co-leaders of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Thiel Mountains party, 1960–61, for Bjørn G. Andersen, Norwegian professor of geology and glaciology at the University of Oslo, who was a member of the 1960–61 and 1961–62 USGS field parties to the Thiel Mountains.

André Kvakkestad

He attended Hebekk School (1978–84), Ski Lower Secondary School (1984–87), Ski Upper Secondary School (1987–1990) and studied law at the University of Oslo from 1990 to 1995.

Ane Hansdatter Kismul

She completed a bachelor's degree in political science at the University of Oslo in 2007.

Anne Kari Lande Hasle

After brief studies at the University of Oslo she graduated as a socionom at Norges kommunal- og sosialhøyskole in 1970.

Åslaug Haga

She has a Masters degree in political science from the University of Oslo.

Åsmund Reikvam

In 1999 he was appointed professor in pharmacotherapeutics at the University of Oslo.

Barony Rosendal

The property remained in private ownership until 1927, when the last owner donated it to the University of Oslo.

Beady Belle

Lech and Reksjø studied music together at the University of Oslo, and as music students they started several bands together.

Berthold Grünfeld

Berthold Grünfeld (22 January 1932 – 20 August 2007) was a Norwegian psychiatrist, sexologist, and professor of social medicine at the University of Oslo.

Bram Peper

After finishing the HBS, Peper studied social sciences at the University of Amsterdam until 1965 and economy and sociology at the University of Oslo (1963/1964) and got his PhD at the Nederlandse Economische Hogeschool (Currently Erasmus University) in 1972.

Carl Anton Bjerknes

Over a fifty year time period, Bjerknes taught mathematics at the University of Oslo and at the military college.

Carl Sofus Lumholtz

Born in Fåberg, Norway, Lumholtz graduated in theology in 1876 from the University of Christiania, now the University of Oslo.

Carol A. Barnes

Carleton University
postdoctoral training in neurophysiology at Dalhousie University, University of Oslo, and the Cerebral Functions Group at University College London

CFEngine

The CFEngine project began in 1993 as a way for author Mark Burgess (then a post-doctoral fellow of the Royal Society at Oslo University, Norway) to get his work done by automating the management of a small group of workstations in the Department of Theoretical Physics.

Christian Adolph Diriks

Shortly after the dissolution of the assembly, Diriks was appointed professor of law at the newly founded Royal Frederick University (today's Oslo), but continuing government responsibilities prevented him from taking up the position.

Christian B. Apenes

He finished his secondary education in 1921 and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the cand.jur. degree in 1925.

Cxense

Cxense conducts joint R&D with universities such as the University of Oslo (UiO), and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) to develop new algorithms, and is supported by Innovation Norway, the Norwegian Government organization promoting industrial development.

Dagfinn Føllesdal

Dagfinn Føllesdal (born 22 June 1932) is the Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, and professor emeritus at the University of Oslo.

Desilo

And as if this was not enough, the archaeologists from the University of Oslo also discovered that there were at least twice as many boats as those that had already been registered.

After intense excavations in the area of Hutovo Blato in the autumn of 2008, archaeologists from University of Oslo, Norway together with Dr. Vasilj found the very first traces of an Illyrian trading post from at least the 2nd-1st centuries BC.

Economy of Greater Oslo

The University of Oslo holds four Nobel Prizes and is the largest knowledge institution in the region, with 30 000 students and 4 600 employees.

Ecosophy

While a professor at University of Oslo in 1972, Arne Næss, introduced the terms "deep ecology movement" and "ecosophy" into environmental literature.

Egil Eriksen

He finished his secondary education in 1927 and graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.real. degree in 1934.

Egil Myklebust

Born in Kvinnherad, Myklebust took a law degree from the University of Oslo in 1967, before starting work with the Norwegian Welfare Services (1968 to 1971).

Einar Kristian Tveitå

In February 2010 he took the PhD degree at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, with the thesis Adhesive Capsulitis, Hydrodilatation and Some Aspects of Validity Regarding Shoulder Assessments.

Eivind Reiten

He enrolled as a student in 1972, and graduated from the University of Oslo in 1978 with a degree in economics.

Ellen Christine Christiansen

She thereupon studied economics for two years, before starting her studies at the University of Oslo.

Erik S. Reinert

He also held a part-time position at The Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), a research institution established by the University of Oslo.

Eskil Pedersen

Born in Skien in Telemark, Pedersen has studied towards a bachelor's degree in political science, and studied courses in European and American studies at the University of Oslo.

Even Kruse Skatrud

2011 - Employed at the University of Oslo, Norway as Assistant Professor, where he teaches jazz arranging.

Fartein Valen

In 1924 he returned to Oslo and from 1927 to 1936 worked as a musical archivist at the University of Oslo.

Foad Rafii

In 1976, he attended the University of Oslo, and completed a course in “Urban and Regional Planning and Environment Protection”.

Follum

Many antiquities are now located in the collection of ancient artifacts of the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo.

Gabriel R. G. Benito

Benito has held visiting positions at Copenhagen Business School, University of Melbourne, and University of Valencia, and taught inter alia at Helsinki School of Economics (now Aalto University), Technical University of Lisbon (ISEG), University of Oslo, and University of Valencia.

Geir Jørgen Bekkevold

He finished his secondary education in Horten in 1982, and attended the University of Oslo from 1983 to 1991.

Gisle Hannemyr

Gisle Hannemyr (born 1953) is a researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Informatics, University of Oslo.

Gitte Mose

Shortly after graduating, she was an associate professor of Danish literature at the University of Oslo from 1995 to 2001, and is a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in Copenhagen.

Glen O'Hara

During November 2006 he was a Visiting Fellow of the University of Oslo.

Halvor Stenstadvold

Stenstadvold finished his secondary education in 1962, and studied at the University of Oslo and Columbia University.

Hans H. Skei

He was born in Dønna, and graduated as dr.philos. with the treatise The novelist as short story writer : a study of William Faulkner's short stories with special emphasis on the period 1928-1932 at the University of Oslo.

Health Information Systems Programme

The global network of HISP is managed and coordinated by the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo.

Hilde Singsaas

She took her education at the University of Oslo, and has worked as an advisor in ECON (2002–2005) and the Norwegian branch of the Red Cross (2005–).

Hugh MacColl

There is presently a long-term MacColl Project, a joint venture of Greifswald University in Germany and the University of Oslo, which intends to publish a critical edition of his work.

Ivan Čičmanec

In the years 1970–1975 he studied Russian, English and Theatre studies at the University of Oslo.

J. Peter Burgess

Burgess worked as teacher of philosophy at the Lycée Français d’Oslo and Adjunct Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oslo in 1992-1994 before becoming a Lecturer and Researcher at Volda University College where he remained in several capacities until 1998.

Jan Helge Jansen

He enrolled as a student in 1957, and graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.theol. degree in 1965.

Janne Haaland Matláry

Janne Haaland grew up in Mandal, Norway and studied at the University of Oslo, attaining her doctorate in political science in 1994.

Johan Elsness

Johan Elsness (born 27 February 1947) is Professor of English language at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Johan Scharffenberg

After issuing the three-volume work Bidrag til de norske lægestillingers historie før 1800 ('Contributions to the History of Norwegian Medical Positions Before 1800) in 1904 and 1905, he applied for a fellowship at the Royal Frederick University in 1908.

Johannes W. Løvhaug

Johannes Waage Løvhaug (born 1967) is a Norwegian historian and editor-in-chief of the gazette Apollon of the University of Oslo.

John G. Bernander

He was educated at the Norwegian Naval Academy in Bergen from 1976 to 1977 and graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.jur. degree in 1982.

Jon Grepstad

He graduated from the University of Bergen in 1974 and later pursued his studies of English at the University of Oslo.

Jon Ola Norbom

Then, in November 1943, he was among the students who were arrested by the German occupying forces in Norway as part of a general imprisonment of all male, non-NS students at the University of Oslo.

Jorn Madslien

Born in 1967 in Oslo, Norway, Jorn was a medical officer in the Norwegian cavalry, before reading philosophy at the University of Oslo and economics at the University of Leeds.

Kathleen Yearwood

Kathleen Yearwood has published several short stories and one novel, published by the University of Oslo in 2003.

Kjersti Ericsson

She is Professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Law of the University of Oslo.

Kjetil Skogrand

He took the Master of Arts degree in International Relations at the University of Sussex in 1992, and the cand.philol. degree at the University of Oslo in 1994.

Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard

Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard (born 6 May 1966) is a Norwegian astronomer formerly employed as a media contact at the University of Oslo's Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics.

Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen Corpus

The Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus (often abbreviated as LOB Corpus) is a million-word collection of British English texts which was compiled in the 1970s in collaboration between the University of Lancaster, the University of Oslo, and the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, Bergen, to provide a British counterpart to the Brown Corpus compiled by Kucera and Francis for American English in the 1960s.

Lisbet Rugtvedt

She finished secondary education in Skien in 1986, and finished a minor in the history of ideas at the University of Oslo in 1993.

Liv Monica Stubholt

She graduated as cand.jur. from the University of Oslo in 1987, and she has a 15 year career as a business lawyer including as partner in law firm BA-HR.

Mads Andenæs

He is a professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Oslo and the former Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London and the former Director of the Centre of European Law at King’s College, University of London.

Marcel van der Linden

Marcel van der Linden received an honorary doctor from the University of Oslo in 2008.

Mathilde Grooss Viddal

The collaboration was formed in 2004 by the name Chateau Neuf Friensemble, with a history from the 1960s University Big Band and the musical environment surrounding the Department of Musicology at University of Oslo.

Nansenhjelpen

It was a professor of German at the University of Oslo, Fredrik Paasche, who approached architect Odd Nansen, the son of famed scientific explorer and Nobel Peace laureate Fridtjof Nansen to lend his name to an organization dedicated to rescuing Jews.

Nils Christian Stenseth

He is the leader of the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES, Senter for fremragende forskning) at the University of Oslo.

Nina Græger

Graeger got her cand.polit. (equivalent to MPhil) in political science at the University of Oslo in 1994 and defended her doctorate in political science at the same institution in 2007.

Nita Kapoor

She has cand.mag. education from the University of Oslo (1979) and business administration from the BI School of Management (1987).

Oddmund Hammerstad

From 1968 to 1973 he studied political science at the University of Oslo.

Ole Richter

He was educated cand.jur. at the University of Oslo and elected to the Storting for the Liberal Party where he became the first Prime Minister in Stockholm after parliamentarianism was introduced, as part of Cabinet Sverdrup in 1884.

Øverland, Bærum

The universities of Oslo and Ås as well as Skogforsk now runs the arboretum together with the Society for Development.

Pål Christian Roland

He has a siv.øk. degree from the Norwegian School of Management and a master’s degree in health administration from the University of Oslo.

Paul Chaffey

At the University of Oslo he minored in political science in 1985–1986 before minoring in history in 1988–1989.

Peder Ås

He has occurred on every candidate of law exam at the University of Oslo (UiO) since 1897, except in 1917, and continues to be used at all law schools.

Per Barth Lilje

He became professor at the University of Oslo in 1993, and since 2005 he heads the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics there.

Per Botolf Maurseth

He graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.oecon. degree in 1995, and took the dr.polit. degree in 2001 with the paper Essays on the nature, the scope and the consequences of knowledge.

Per-Kristian Foss

Foss has a cand.mag. degree in political science, public law and criminology from the University of Oslo (1977) and partial graduate studies in political science.

Peter Johnsen

He has also received an Olin Fellowship to work at the University of Oslo in Norway.

Piboserod

In 2002 a research group at the University of Oslo discovered that muscles from the ventricle of failing hearts have increased responsiveness to serotonin.

Pliosauroidea

In August 2006, palaeontologists of the University of Oslo discovered the first remains of a pliosaur on Norwegian soil.

PowerTech Information Systems

PowerTech's original rival was OsloNett, which was started by IT professionals from the University of Oslo and was later acquired by Telenor.

Ragnar Winther

He took his PhD in 1977, and was appointed professor at the University of Oslo in 1991.

Ras Mubarak

He holds a diploma in Public Relations and a postgraduate diploma in International Development Studies from the University of Oslo Summer School.

Rolf Anker Ims

He took the dr.philos. degree in 1989, and was appointed as a professor of landscape ecology at the University of Oslo in 1992.

Signals of Belief in Early England

The anthology's third paper was produced by Julie Lund, then a Senior Lecturer in archaeology at the University of Oslo in Norway.

Sigrun Vågeng

She took her education at the University of Oslo in 1975, graduating as cand.mag., and took an MBA degree at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in 2001.

Simon Critchley

He has held visiting professorships at numerous universities, including Sydney (2000), Notre Dame (2002), Cardozo Law School (2005) and at the University of Oslo (2006).

Sivert Høyem

Whilst pursuing a music career he minored in history at the University of Oslo.

Sjur Refsdal

He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Emeritus at the Institute for theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Oslo.

Soren Holm

He holds a chair in bioethics at the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, part of the School of Law at the University of Manchester in Great Britain and the University of Oslo.

Sun Constellation System

A number of smaller Constellation systems are deployed at other supercomputer centers, including the University of Oslo.

Svein Alsaker

By profession Alsaker was a jurist, having graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.jur. degree in 1964.

Svein Gjedrem

He graduated in political economy from the University of Oslo in 1975, worked as a consultant in the Central Bank of Norway from 1975–1979 and in the Ministry of Finance from 1979 to 1998.

Svein Sevje

Sevje is a trained historian and graduated in 1977 from the Academic Society for Norwegian Industry, University of Oslo.

Thomas Mathiesen

He graduated as M.A. in 1958 (major subject: sociology, minor subject: psychology and social anthropology) from the University of Oslo, where he did his doctorate in 1965.

Tjølling

Most recently it has been the site of post-excavation work conducted by the University of Oslo.

Tom Segalstad

He is the past head of the Geological Museum at the University of Oslo (a position he held for 12 years) and the past head of the Natural History Museums and Botanical Garden of the University of Oslo.

Torild Skogsholm

Skogsholm graduated in economics (Cand.Oecon.) at the University of Oslo, 1988.


Anton Christian Bang

In 1876 he took the first doctorate in theology at the University of Oslo on the subject Om Kristi Opstandelses historiske Virkelighed (On Christ's Resurrection's Historical Reality).

Geir Lundestad

Born in Sulitjelma, Lundestad studied history at the University of Oslo and University of Tromsø, graduating in 1970 with a cand.philol. degree and in 1976 with a doctorate respectively.

Magne Oftedal

He was born in Sandnes in the county of Rogaland in 1921 and began studying for a degree in philology at the University of Oslo but his studies were interrupted by the Second World War and he only managed to complete his degree in 1947.

Norwegian Space Centre

The Hinode Science Data Centre (SDC) Europe has been developed through the Norwegian Space Centre, at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, as part of the contribution of the European Space Agency to the Hinode mission.

Ole Humlum

Ole Humlum (born 21 July 1949) is a Danish professor of physical geography at the University of Oslo, Department of Geosciences and adjunct professor of physical geography at the University Centre in Svalbard.