Jostein Børtnes (born 16 April 1937) is a Norwegian literary historian and Slavist with emphasis on Russian.
He took the Russian training in the Norwegian Armed Forces, then graduated with the cand.philol.
degree at the University of Oslo in 1976 he was promoted to first lecturer.
He remained here until retiring in 2007, and was also the dean of the Faculty of Humanities from 1991 to 1993.
[2] Among his works are the books Det gammelrussiske helgenvita: dikterisk egenart og historisk betydning, PhD thesis from 1975 (translated into English as Visions of Glory: Studies in Early Russian Hagiography), Aristoteles om diktekunsten from 1980, and Episke problemer from 1980, in addition to contributions to journals and anthologies.