Knut Sprauten

Knut Sprauten (born 22 June 1948) is a Norwegian historian.

[2] He was hired as the head of a department in the National Archival Services of Norway in 1991.

[3] In 1992 he released Byen ved festningen: fra 1536 til 1814, volume two of the work Oslo bys historie, covering the history of Oslo.

[5] Sprauten also contributed to the encyclopedia Norsk biografisk leksikon.

[2] In late 2000 Sprauten was hired as the director of the Norwegian Institute of Local History.