Svein Bjerke
Svein Bjerke, is a religious historian and professor emeritus at the University of Oslo, where he was attached to the Department for the History of Religion for thirty years, part of the time as its head. He belonged to the first Norwegian group of anthropology students, but has since worked with archeological excavations, philological text analyses and traditional anthropological field work. His most well-known work is the doctoral dissertation Religion and Misfortune based on fieldwork in North-Western Tanzania. Bjerke has represented Norwegian Comparative religion in the International Association for the History of Religion and for a number of years been a member of the editorial board of the journal Humanist.
Bjerke is married to professor Nora Ahlberg.
