Johan Vilhelm Aubert was an influential Norwegian sociologist.
14 Facts About Vilhelm Aubert
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Vilhelm Aubert was a professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo from 1963 to 1971 and at the Department of Sociology from 1971 to 1988.
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Vilhelm Aubert co-founded the Norwegian Institute for Social Research already in 1950, and has been labelled the "father of Norwegian sociology".
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Vilhelm Aubert was the older brother of mathematician Karl Egil Aubert, born 1924.
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Vilhelm Aubert enrolled at the University of Oslo in 1940, the same year as Norway was invaded by Germany as a part of the Second World War.
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Vilhelm Aubert then lived in the United States for two years, studying sociology and psychology at Columbia and Berkeley.
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Vilhelm Aubert was a member of the Labour Party in his younger days.
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Vilhelm Aubert was the editor-in-chief of the newspaper for some time.
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Some excluded members went on to found the Socialist People's Party, whereas Vilhelm Aubert left partisan politics to concentrate on an academic career.
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Vilhelm Aubert was promoted to professor of the sociology of law in 1963.
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Vilhelm Aubert later moved to the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Blindern, as a professorship in general sociology was established in 1971.
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Vilhelm Aubert held an honorary degree at the Faculty of Law of the University of Edinburgh, issued in 1971.
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Vilhelm Aubert has been credited for his contributions to the sociology of law, and some have labelled him the "father of Norwegian sociology" in general.
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Vilhelm Aubert has been criticized for maintaining a thin line between research and activism in some of his works.