Knut Helle was born in Larvik as the son of school inspector Hermann Olai Helle and teacher Berta Marie Malm.
14 Facts About Knut Helle
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Knut Helle was the older brother of politician Ingvar Lars Helle.
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The family moved to Hetland when Knut Helle was seventeen years old.
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Knut Helle took the examen artium in Stavanger in 1949, and a teacher's education in Kristiansand in 1952.
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Knut Helle studied philology in Oslo and Bergen, and graduated with the cand.
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Knut Helle's paper Omkring Boglungasogur, on the Bagler sagas, was printed in 1959.
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Knut Helle was a research fellow at the University of Bergen from 1958 to 1963, with the last year being spent at Oxford University.
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Knut Helle was hired as a lecturer of history at the University of Bergen in 1963, and promoted to professor in 1973.
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Knut Helle made his mark by contributing to larger historical works.
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Knut Helle was involved in the editorial work of both Aschehougs verdenshistorie and Aschehougs norgeshistorie, general works on global and Norwegian history from the publishing house Aschehoug.
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Knut Helle was a member of the editorial committee of Oslo bys historie and Norsk utviklingshjelps historie, and led the editorial committee of the Norsk biografisk leksikon, which was published in ten volumes between 1999 and 2005.
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In 2006 Knut Helle published Norsk byhistorie: urbanisering gjennom 1300 ar together with Finn-Einar Eliassen, Jan Eivind Myhre and Ola Svein Stugu.
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Knut Helle was the vice dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Bergen from 1978 to 1980, and chair of the Chr.
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Knut Helle is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.