Paul Knaplund

Paul A. Knaplund (February 5, 1885, Saltstraumen, in Bodø Municipality, Norway – April 8, 1964, Madison, Wisconsin) was a Norwegian-American professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He specialized in the history of the British Empire.

Biography He was raised on the Knaplundsjyen farm on the island of Knaplundsøya in Bodin Municipality (now part of Bodø Municipality). He grew up as the youngest in a family with 10 children. His parents were Martinus Johnsen Knaplund (1832–1919) and Kristina née Andreasdatter (1839–1919).

Knaplund emigrated from Norway to the United States and established his residence at Ostrander, Minnesota in the spring of 1906. He worked on the farm of Norwegian-American Hans Christensen in 1906 and 1907. Knaplund became a naturalized U.S. citizen at Red Wing, Minnesota on October 4, 1913. He graduated from Red Wing Lutheran Seminary (now St. Olaf College) with B.A. in 1913 and from the University of Wisconsin with M.A. in 1914 and with Ph.D. in 1919. He was a history teacher at Decorah High School in Decorah, Iowa from 1914 to 1916. In the history department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he was an assistant from 1913 to 1914 and from 1916 to 1917, an instructor from 1917 to 1921, an assistant professor from 1921 to 1925,

Knaplund lived in England and did research in British archives from 1922 to 1923. He published articles in the Canadian Historical Review, the American Historical Review, Historisk Tidsskrift (Oslo), the American Journal of International Law, and Current History.

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