Dagfinn Hauge

Dagfinn Hauge (14 July 1908 – 14 March 2007) was a Norwegian writer and Lutheran Bishop in the Church of Norway. During the German occupation of Norway he served as priest at the Akershus Prison, where prisoners with death sentence spent their last days before execution.

Biography Hauge grew up in Bergen, Norway. He was the son of David Hauge (1876-1926) and Kari Bremer (1880-1979). In 1927 he went to the University of Oslo to study theology at the Faculty of Law and graduated in 1932.

Hauge was briefly a member of Oslo City Council. He was a board member of the Luther Foundation (1945–1961). ). Hauge was also secretary general of the Norwegian Christian Youth League (1948–1954). He served as editor of Luthersk Kirketidende, published by Luther Foundation (1954–1962). Hauge was a minister at Vestre Aker in Oslo from 1959 to 1962. He then served as the bishop of the Diocese of Tunsberg from 1962 to 1978.

Selected works Lilleborg menighet 25 år (1942) Bønnens mulighet (1944) Slik dør menn (1946) Visitas på bedehuset (1966) Lokalmenighetenes organisasjonsform (1973) Fortolkning til første og annen Samuels bok (1973) Menighet i vekst (1977) Tiden i Tunsberg (1983) 100 år med ungdom i Larvik (1987) Prestetjeneste på Akershus under krigen (2001)