Vilhelm Aubert

Vilhelm Aubert
Born(1922-06-07)7 June 1922
Died19 July 1988(1988-07-19) (aged 66)
CitizenshipNorwegian
Scientific career
Fieldssociology of law
general sociology
action research
InstitutionsUniversity of Oslo (1954–1988)

Johan Vilhelm Aubert (7 June 1922 – 19 July 1988) was an influential Norwegian sociologist. He was a professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo from 1963 to 1971 and at the Department of Sociology from 1971 to 1988. He co-founded the Norwegian Institute for Social Research already in 1950, and has been labelled the "father of Norwegian sociology". In his early life he was a member of the anti-Nazi resistance group XU, and while later involved on the radical wing of the Labour Party, he edited the newspaper Orientering.