Ørnulv Ødegård [SEP] date of birth
Ørnulv Ødegård
Ørnulv Ødegård (12 April 1901 – 23 February 1983) was a Norwegian psychiatrist. He was the director of Gaustad Hospital from 1938 to 1972. He was involved as an expert during the trial against Hamsun. He is known for his studies on women who fraternized with German soldiers during the occupation of Norway, where he concluded that their level of intelligence was lower than average. He has also been criticized for the practice of lobotomizing of mental patients.
Semitic posters. He fled Norway for Germany after being released from detention, then returned in the autumn of 1939, and was acquitted. As a part of the trial Amble was assessed by forensic psychiatrist Gabriel Langfeldt, who among other things diagnosed Amble with "enduringly weakened mental faculties". Langfeldt (and Ørnulv Ødegård) would later, famously, apply the same diagnosis to the worldwide known author Knut Hamsun. Amble's defender was Albert Wiesener.
In addition to producing posters, Amble held public speeches, ran the small