Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon

Who is Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon?

Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon is an Icelandic historian specialising in microhistory. He has been an independent scholar for most of his career. He established the Center for Microhistorical Research at the Reykjavík Academy in 2003. He currently holds a research position at the National Museum of Iceland named after Dr. Kristján Eldjárn, the former president of Iceland and an archaeologist. The following text is based on his book The History War: Essays and Narrative on Ideology, which is autobiographical in nature and deals with historiographical issues such as the development of ideas which are part of the microhistorical agenda. Magnússon is the author of 16 books and has been involved in the publication of nine more through a book series which he has co-edited. His latest book, titled Wasteland with Words. A social history of Iceland was published in 2010 by Reaktion Books in England.