Christopher Brinchmann
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Christopher Brinchmann was a Norwegian historian and archivist.

He was born in Leka
Leka, Norway
Leka is a municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Leknes. Other villages include Sør-Gutvika and Madsøygrenda....

. He worked in the National Archival Services of Norway
National Archival Services of Norway
The National Archival Services of Norway is a Norwegian government agency that is responsible for keeping state archives, conducts control of public archiving and works to preserve private archives. It is subordinate to the Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs and consists of the National...

 from 1896, and was deputy director from 1922 to 1934. He was among the publishers of Diplomatarium Norvegicum
Diplomatarium Norvegicum
Diplomatarium Norvegicum is a series of books containing the texts of documents and letters from Norway older than 1590, verbatim and in the original language. The series consists of 22 volumes, containing the texts of approximately 20,000 documents....

. Among his own works were Nationalforskeren P. A. Munch; hans liv og virke (1910), Grønlands overgang til Danmark (1922), Norske kongesigiller (1924) and Norges arkivsaker i Danmark (1927). He also edited the periodical Kringsjaa
Kringsjaa
Kringsjaa was a periodical which was published weekly from 1893–1910. It was published by Olaf Norlis forlag in Kristiania. The paper was around 80–100 pages, and was based on subscription...

, from 1898 to 1907.
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