The Most Famous
POLITICAL SCIENTISTS from Norway
This page contains a list of the greatest Norwegian Political Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 29 Political Scientists, 2 of which were born in Norway. This makes Norway the birth place of the 4th most number of Political Scientists behind Germany and France.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Norwegian Political Scientists of all time. This list of famous Norwegian Political Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Christian Lous Lange (1869 - 1938)
With an HPI of 63.87, Christian Lous Lange is the most famous Norwegian Political Scientist. His biography has been translated into 50 different languages on wikipedia.
Christian Lous Lange (17 September 1869 – 11 December 1938) was a Norwegian historian, teacher, and political scientist. He was one of the world's foremost exponents of the theory and practice of internationalism.
2. Johan Galtung (1930 - 2024)
With an HPI of 62.08, Johan Galtung is the 2nd most famous Norwegian Political Scientist. His biography has been translated into 37 different languages.
Johan Vincent Galtung (24 October 1930 – 17 February 2024) was a Norwegian sociologist and the principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies. He was the main founder of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in 1959 and was its first director until 1970. He also established the Journal of Peace Research in 1964. In 1969, he was appointed to the world's first chair in peace and conflict studies, at the University of Oslo. He resigned his Oslo professorship in 1977 and thereafter held professorships at several other universities; from 1993 to 2000 he taught as Distinguished Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Hawaii. He was the Tun Mahathir Professor of Global Peace at the International Islamic University Malaysia until 2015.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as political scientists born between 1869 and 1930. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased political scientists include Christian Lous Lange and Johan Galtung.
