Marriage
Dag married Synnøve Flatebø, b. 1970, in Mandal church on 13 October 2007.
Education
The family moved to Sandefjord
in 1977. Following education at Unneberg skole (primary school) 1977-83 and Breidablikk
Junior High Shcool (ungdomsskole) 1983-86, Hoelseth graduated from Sandefjord
High School (Sandefjord Gymnas, now called Sandefjord Videregående Skole) in 1989.
Hoelseth then moved to Oslo to continue his education at the University of Oslo. He
passed the Examen Philosophicum (preliminary exam) during the fall of 1989 and then
started studies in English language and literature, reaching the level of English middle subject
in 1991. After a one year’s break 1991-92 doing his military service as an infantry soldier
at Terningmoen, Elverum, Hoelseth returned to Oslo and the University where he passed his political science
exams in 1994. He then switched to history, majoring in 1997 with
the degree Cand.philol. (somewhere between an MA and a PhD).
His university dissertation in history was named Det nasjonale kongedømme. Det norske monarkiet 1905-1910 («National kingdom. The Norwegian monarchy 1905-1910»).
Work
In December 1997, two days before his final oral exam, Hoelseth got a temporary position
in the archives of the Church Department at the Royal Ministry of
Education,
Research and Church affairs.(1) In March 1998 he switched to a similar
position at the University and College Department of the same ministry,(2) before he in
May 1998 got a permanent position as an editorial secretary at the Lovdata
Foundation.
(1) The Church Department was from 1 January 2002 transferred to the new Kultur- og kirkedepartementet (Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs).
(2) Universitets- og høyskoleavdelingen (The University and College Department) became a part of the restructured Utdannings- og forskningsdepartementet (Ministry of Education and Research) from 1 January 2002, which from 1 January 2008 was renamed Kunnskapsdepartemenet (still same name in English).
The historian
As an historian Dag T. Hoelseth is focusing on (serious) royal history and genealogy as well as constitutional history. Other interests are Norwegian-American emigration history and Eastern European topics. Besides his university dissertation Hoelseth has for several years beeen freelancing for various Norwegian newspapers and magazines, mainly covering royalty. He has also contributed to the book Jakten på det norske : perspektiver på utviklingen av en norsk nasjonal identitet på 1800-tallet (Oslo: Ad Notam Gyldendal, 1998).
«Historisk utredning om kongehuset, dets apanasjer og disponible statseiendommer» - «Report on the Norwegian Royal House's civil list and the state-owned properties at its disposial» (on behalf of the Palace Committee, Ministry of Labour and Administration) - was finished in December 2000 and published on 22 January 2001.
Hoelseth has written the article ««En svensk-norsk union av det rätta slaget». Forholdet mellom kongehusene i Norge og Sverige 1905-1929» (""A Swedish-Norwegian union of the right sort". The relationship between the royal houses in Norway and Sweden 1905-1929") in the anthology Norsk-svenske relasjoner i 200 år ("Norwegian-Swedish relations for 200 years"), Oslo: Aschehough, 2005, p. 41-56 (ed.: Øystein Sørensen and Torbjörn Nilsson).
Work experience, freelance activities
Organisation experience etc.
Memberships
Hobbies
Football (soccer) has always been one of Hoelseth’s main interests. In his younger days he played for Helgerød Idrettslag in Sandefjord. Later he has only played with friends in the parks or at the University (just for fun), but has been involved in organised supporters’ activities for many years. He also used to play floor bandy (indoor activity), playing actively in his university days (among others for the team Harde Køller) as well at the KRIK-IT training sessions.
In later years he has become increasingly interested in genealogy and has worked hard on searching his ancestry and collateral lines. So far he has mainly been working on the families of Hoelseth and Ekeli, but hopes to do more on the Trygsland and Ramstad families as well later.
His Internet website is another obvious hobby, besides literature and travelling.
Others
At the University of Oslo Hoelseth was an active member of the Oslo Kristelige Studentlag (Oslo Student Christian Fellowship). Later he occasionally attended cermons in Storsalen (Normisjon, formerly Indremisjonsselskapet), but soon after moving to Oppsal in 2007 Dag and his wife have become active in Oppsal church, attending services rather regularly
Friends and colleagues
Actually Hoelseth has not many friends who have their own website, if we exclude all the friends and contacts he has got through history and genealogy work. A couple of exceptions, though: John-Arild Foss runs the website The Amazing Maze while Knut Nåtedal updates information about his family at http://home.no.net/knatedal/. Some family members have homepages, and you can locate those via the genealogy page.
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This website was last updated on 20 May 2009
(first time published in 1998).
© 1998-2009 Dag Trygsland Hoelseth
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