Peter Andreas Munch
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About
Norwegian historian, scholar, and co-founder of the Norwegian Nationalist School of Historiography. In 1970, he published a work entitled The Song Tradition of Tristan da Cunha, and he also translated thirteenth-century Norse literature.
Before fame
He studied law at the Royal Frederick University in Oslo, Norway.
Trivia
During the Norwegian nationalist period, he published a book of Norse mythology.
Family life
He was the son of Edvard Storm Munch and Johanne Hofgaard.
Associated with
He was the uncle of acclaimed painter Edvard Munch.
