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Sighvatur Kristinn Björgvinsson

Icelandic politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ3480682 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sighvatur Kristinn Björgvinsson (born 23 January 1942) is an Icelandic politician and former minister. He was the Minister of Finance of Iceland from 1979 to 1980.

Editorial summary

“Sighvatur Kristinn Björgvinsson” enters the record as icelandic politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sighvatur, Kristinn and Björgvinsson can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1942, 1979, 1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1942-01-23. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sighvatur, Kristinn and Björgvinsson.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Sighvatur Kristinn Björgvinsson” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sighvatur, Kristinn and Björgvinsson provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3480682. VIAF identifies the subject as 3273152140030211100009. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1942, 1979 and 1980.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  2. Expand the search: follow Sighvatur Kristinn Björgvinsson primary sources, Sighvatur Kristinn Björgvinsson archive and Sighvatur research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sighvatur Kristinn Björgvinsson” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.