Albert Brock-Utne

Albert Brock-Utne (June 4, 1906 – ) was a Norwegian scholar of religion and anthropologist.

Life Albert Brock-Utne was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), the son of the attorney Albert Brock-Utne (1872–1925) and Dagmar Gasmann-Hansen (1876–1925). He studied religious studies under Wilhelm Schencke

After the war, Brock-Utne hoped to become Schencke's successor as a professor, but when the professorship was given to Georg Johan Sverdrup he relocated to Los Angeles, California to become a businessman and fund his further research.

Brock-Utne's research interests focused especially on primitive religions. His Studiet av primitive folk (The Study of Primitive Peoples, 1938) can be regarded as the first Norwegian anthropology textbook.