What is Francis Sejersted?
{{Infobox person | image = Francis Sejersted 2.jpg | image_size = | name = Francis Sejersted | caption = Francis Sejersted (2009) | birth_date = {{Birth date|1936|2|8|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Oslo]], [[Norway]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|8|25|1936|2|8|df=y}} | death_place = Oslo, Norway | occupation = [[Professor]] | spouse = | parents = | children = }} '''Francis Sejersted''' (8 February 1936 &ndash; 25 August 2015) was a [[Norwegians|Norwegian]] history professor. He was the former chairman of the [[Norwegian Nobel Committee]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/sejersted-head-nobel-peace-prize-committee-dies-33298846|title=Sejersted, Former Head of Nobel Peace Prize Committee Dies|author=ABC News|work=ABC News}}</ref> He was elected a member of the [[Academia Europaea]] in 1989.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Sejersted_Francis |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328104806/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Sejersted_Francis |title=Francis Sejersted|publisher=Academia Europaea |archive-date=28 March 2019}}</ref> Sejersted suffered a long [[illness]] and died on 25 August 2015 in Oslo, aged 79.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Khan|first1=Shah|title=Death of Nobel committee head who honoured Mandela|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/944513/death-of-nobel-committee-head-who-honoured-mandela/|access-date=25 August 2015|work=Chairman|agency=Norwegian News Agency|publisher=AFP|date=25 August 2015|location=Oslo|pages=1|language=en}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sejersted, Francis}} [[Category:1936 births]] [[Category:2015 deaths]] [[Category:Disease-related deaths in Norway]] [[Category:Norwegian academics]] [[Category:Norwegian Nobel Committee]] [[Category:People from Oslo]] [[Category:Members of Academia Europaea]] {{bio-stub}}