Background
SEIP, Anne-Lise was born on November 6, 1933. Daughter of Edvin Thomassen and Birgit Thomassen.
historian politician professor
SEIP, Anne-Lise was born on November 6, 1933. Daughter of Edvin Thomassen and Birgit Thomassen.
University of Oslo.
A professor emerita at the University of Oslo, she specialized in social history and the history of the welfare state. She moved to Oslo in 1956 to study at the University of Oslo. She took the candidate.philol. degree in 1966, and the dr.philos. degree in 1974 with the thesis Vitenskap og virkelighet, about Torkel Halvorsen Aschehoug.
However, she was excluded together with a group from this organization after visiting East Germany.
After one year, Seip was hired at the Institute of History. She was promoted to professor in 1985.
Her field was modern Norwegian history, specifically social history, and her main works are Om velferdsstatens framvekst (1981), Sosialhjelpstaten blir til. Norsk sosialpolitikk fra 1740 til 1920 (1984) and Veien til velferdsstaten: norsk sosialpolitikk 1920-1975 (1994).
She also penned volume eight of Aschehougs Norgeshistorie.
As a professor emerita, she has biographed Johan Sebastian Welhaven in Demringstid. Johan Sebastian Welhaven og nasjonen (2007).
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters]
While studying, she was a member of the Labour Party-affiliated Sosialistisk studentlag. Seip became a member of the Socialist People"s Party at its foundation in 1961, and served for some time as a member of Bærum municipal council. She is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
From 1974 to 1981 she was a member of Kringkastingsrådet.
Married Jens Arup Seip in 1960.