Berge Furre

Berge Ragnar Furre (13 April 1937 – 11 January 2016) was a Norwegian historian, theologian and politician for the Socialist Left Party.

[2] He was a member of the Labour Party, but as the chairman of Sosialistisk Studentlag (1956–1957) he was central to the so-called "Easter Uprising" in 1958.

He left both the editor and research fellow position in 1971 to become an associate professor of history at the University of Tromsø.

[2] Furre was a member of the Norwegian Parliament for the Socialist Left Party from 1973 to 1977, representing the county Rogaland.

[2] Having left the University of Tromsø when elected to Parliament in 1973, he returned in 1975 as a lecturer.

He held a number of positions: he was a member of the Church of Norway General Synod, the Diocese Council of Oslo and the Church of Norway Council on Ecumenical and International Relations.