Johannes W. Løvhaug

Who is Johannes W. Løvhaug?

Johannes Waage Løvhaug is a Norwegian historian and editor-in-chief of the gazette Apollon of the University of Oslo. He is cand.philol with history of ideas as main interest. He has studied ideological history at the Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf. In 2007, he published the book Politikk som idékamp, in which he wrote about the history of the Norwegian conservative periodical Minerva between 1957 and 1972. In this book, he claimed that the community associated with Minerva represented an important counter-weight and middle way between the marxian movement in AKP and the libertarian movement associated with the organisation Libertas and the periodical Farmand. The book received mostly good critics by reviewers.