Officials and Clergy in Middle Norway and Northern Norway  from 1536 to 1700

In 1999 and 2000 Svein Tore Dahl, partly in collaboration with Kåre Hasselberg, released four noteworthy books about government officials and the clergy in Middle and Northern Norway from the Reformation in 1536 until about 1700:
EMBETSMENN I MIDT-NORGE I TIDEN 1536-1660
(Officials in Middle Norway from 1536 to 1660)
Svein Tore Dahl, Trondheim 1999.
Index

EMBETSMENN I MIDT-NORGE I TIDEN 1660-1700
(Officials in Middle Norway from 1660 to 1700)
Svein Tore Dahl, Trondheim 1999.
Index

EMBETSMENN I NORD-NORGE I TIDEN 1536-1700
(Officials in Northern Norway from 1536 to 1700)
Kåre Hasselberg og Svein Tore Dahl, Trondheim 1999.

GEISTLIGHETEN I NORD-NORGE OG MIDT-NORGE I TIDEN 1536-1700
(The Clergy in Northern Norway and Middle Norway from 1536 to 1700)
Svein Tore Dahl, Trondheim 2000.
Index
 

The books are remarkable in more than one aspect. The books about the government and local government officials are the first collections of knowledge about these people and their family ties. The book about the clergy is the first collection for this part of the country in appr. 150 years. As important for the reader, these books have not been written by a traditional genealogist. Svein Tore Dahl was a graduate historian from the Technical University of Trondheim. As such, he focused on primary sources of information which unvealed much information previously unknown. In doing this, he was able to confirm a number of previously undocumented hypotheses. Based on solid documentation, he also dismissed a number of well-known, yet undocumented hypotheses which had almost turned into 'facts' by being repeated and copied from one genealogist to the other.

An informal support group with the purpose of encouraging Svein Tore Dahl's continued historical research and publications was established in the spring of 2000. Click here, if you would like to know more about this support group which has now broken up.




Most recently updated 1 Sep 2001
Jan Tuxen