Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon

Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon (born August 29, 1957) is an Icelandic historian specialising in microhistory. He was an independent scholar from when he finished his doctoral dissertation in 1993 until 2010. He established the Center for Microhistorical Research at the Reykjavík Academy) in 2003. He got a research position at the National Museum of Iceland named after Dr. Kristján Eldjárn, the former president of Iceland and an archaeologist, in 2010 and until 2013. After that, he became a Professor of Cultural History at the Department of History at the University of Iceland.

He is married to Dr Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir, a Professor of Economics at the University of Iceland.

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