Gustav Storm

Gustav Storm (18 June 1845 – 23 February 1903) was a Norwegian historian, a professor at the Royal Frederick University in Christiania from 1877. He was a driving force in the research of Scandinavian history and literature of the Middle Ages.

Personal life Storm was born in Rendal Municipality in Hedmark county, as the son of Ole Johan Storm and Hanna Jørgine Mathilde Breda. The family moved to Lardal Municipality in Vestfold, where his father was a vicar. When Gustav was five years old, his father died, and the family subsequently moved to Christiania (now Oslo). He was a brother of linguist Johan Storm and a cousin of zoologist Vilhelm Storm. He died at Bygdøy in 1903.

Career Storm finished his secondary education in 1862. He studied philology at the Royal Frederick University in Christiania, graduating as cand.philol. in 1868.

Storm became a central person in history research and education at the university.

Selected works Om den gamle norrøne literatur (1869) Snorre Sturlassøns Historieskrivning, en kritisk Undersøgelse (1873) Sagnkretsene om Karl den Store og Didrik af Bern hos de nordiske folk (1874) Kritiske bidrag til vikingetidens historie (1876) Ragnar Lodbrok og Lodbrokssønnerne (1877) Vikingetidens tidligste udgangspunkter (1879) Studier over Vinlandsreiserne, Vinlands Geografi og Etnografi (1888) Maria Stuart (1891) Christofer Columbus og Amerikas opdagelse (1892) Olav den Hellige (1893) Norges gamle Vaaben, Farver og Flag (1894) Snorre Sturlasons Norges Kongesagaer (1896–99) Dronning Margretes valg i i Norge (1900)