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[maa95]

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Title: Sådan bruges Dannebrog
Medium: article in a non-vexillological source
Main author(s): Kristian Melgaard
Language: Danish
Source title: Om Dannebrog jeg ved…
Source number (date): (1995)
Source pages: 60-65
Source edition (publisher: place): Forlaget Viborg: Viborg (Denmark)
Catalogue codes: ISBN 87-90821-00-9 = ISBN 978-87-90821-00-1

[mab02]

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Title: Texas Flags
Medium: book
Main author(s): Robert Maberry
Secondary author(s): Peter C. Marzio
Edition (publisher: place): Texas A&M University Press: College Station (United States)
Language: English
Edition date: 2002.01
Catalogue codes: ISBN 1-58544-151-1 = ISBN 978-1-58544-151-0
Pages: 198
Remarks: Hardcover

It is a lavishly illustrated and well written book on Texas flags from Spanish and Mexican days through the Texas War Of Independence, the American Civil War and post-war years, into Texas units serving in the Spanish-American War and World War 1. The flag are depicted either as color illustrations or color photographs. The book is very well researched and the copious footnotes make for fine reading alone!
Greg Biggs, 02 Jan 2002


[mac81]

Obsolete entry! Please refer to [mcg81]

[mac92]

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Title: Breve storia dei codici di segnalazione marittima a bandiere
Medium: article in a non-vexillological source
Main author(s): G. Mataluno
Language: Italian
Source title: Rivista Marittima
Source number (date): 487 (1992.05)
Source pages: 87
Source edition (publisher: place): Rivista Marittima: Roma (Italy)
Catalogue codes: Id.:33988

[mad71]

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Title: Forslag til lov om flagg og flaggbruk
Medium: book
Main author(s): Atle Grahl-Madsen
Edition (publisher: place): (author): Bergen (Norway)
Language: Norwegian (Bokmål)
Edition date: 1971 (1st ed.)
Pages: 75

[mad72]

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Title: Forslag til lov om flagg og flaggbruk: tillegg
Medium: book
Main author(s): Atle Grahl-Madsen
Edition (publisher: place): Norges Handelshøyskole: Bergen (Norway)
Language: Norwegian (Bokmål)
Edition date: 1972 (1st ed.)
Pages: 94

Full title: Forslag til lov om flagg og flaggbruk: tillegg: revidert utkast til lov om flagg og flaggbruk: forordninger, lover, resolusjoner, stortingsvedtak m.v.: kronologisk og analytisk oversikt over flagg og flaggbest.


[mad73]

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Title: Forslag til ny norsk flagglov: en orientering
Medium: book
Main author(s): Atle Grahl-Madsen
Edition (publisher: place): Norges Handelshøyskole: Bergen (Norway)
Language: Norwegian (Bokmål)
Edition date: 1973 (1st ed.)
Pages: 21

[mad73a]

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Title: International flag standard (Draft)
Medium: book
Main author(s): Atle Grahl-Madsen
Edition (publisher: place): Norges Handelshøyskole: Bergen (Norway)
Language: English
Edition date: 1973 (1st ed.)
Pages: 13

[mad73b]

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Title: Forslag til ny norsk flagglov
Medium: article in a non-vexillological source
Main author(s): Atle Grahl-Madsen
Language: Norwegian (Bokmål)
Source title: Norsk Militært Tidsskrift
Source number (date): 143 (1973)
Source pages: 227-235

[mad74]

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Title: International flag standard (Draft)
Medium: book
Main author(s): Atle Grahl-Madsen
Edition (publisher: place): Norges Handelshøyskole: Bergen (Norway)
Language: English
Edition date: 1974 (2nd ed.)
Previous edition: [mad73a]
Remarks: completely rev.

[mad75]

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Title: A Contribution to New Glory
Medium: book
Main author(s): Atle Grahl-Madsen
Edition (publisher: place): Norges Handelshøyskole: Bergen (Norway)
Language: English
Edition date: 1975 (1st ed.)
Pages: 29

[mad83]

Title: Flag and heraldry
Medium: article in a vexillological source
Main author(s): Atle Grahl-Madsen
Language: English
Source title: The Flag Bulletin [tfb]
Source number (date): XXII-3-4 = 100 (1983.05-08)
Source pages: 84-92

[mad84]

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Title: Norske kommunevåpen og -flagg. Arbeidsutgave
(in English: Norwegian municipal arms and flags: draft)
Medium: book
Main author(s): Atle Grahl-Madsen
Edition (publisher: place): (author): Bergen (Norway)
Language: Norwegian (Bokmål)
Edition date: 1984
Pages: 43

[mad84a]

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Title: Norske kommunevåpen og -flagg. Systematisk ordnet
(in English: Norwegian municipal arms and flags: systematic classification; draft.)
Medium: book
Main author(s): Atle Grahl-Madsen
Edition (publisher: place): (author): Bergen (Norway)
Language: Norwegian (Bokmål)
Edition date: 1984
Pages: 25

[mad84b]

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Title: Flagg på fritidsfarkoster i Åland
(in English: Flag on pleasure boats in Åland)
Medium: book
Main author(s): Atle Grahl-Madsen
Edition (publisher: place): (author): Bergen (Norway)
Language: Norwegian (Bokmål)
Edition date: 1984

[mad96]

Title: Flag usage in Norway
Medium: article in a vexillological source
Main author(s): Atle Grahl-Madsen
Language: English
Source title: The Flag Bulletin [tfb]
Source number (date): XXXV-3 = 169 (1983)
Source pages: 134-138

Atle Grahl-Madsen (1922-1990) was a prominent scholar in the field on international law, specialising in the status of refugees. A collection of articles written in his honour was published last year. The title may suggest Grahl-Madsen’s professional interests as a jurist: The Living law of nations: essays on refugees, minorities, indigenous peoples and the human rights of other vulnerable groups in memory of Atle Grahl-Madsen. The book is edited by Gudmundur Alfredsson and Peter Mcalister-Smith (Kehl: Engel, 1996). The name of the second editor may be recognised by some of you. Dr. Mcalister-Smith has written on flags of the Red Cross and Red Crescent for the Flag Bulletin tfb], and contributed an article on the flag of the United Nations [mcs86] to the Nordic Journal of International Law when Grahl-Madsen was the editor of that journal.

Grahl-Madsen became Cand.jur. from the University of Oslo in 1947, and received his doctorate from the same university in 1967 on a thesis entitled “The Status of Refugees in International Law”. From 1948 to 1949 he worked as a Resettlement Officer for the International Refugee Organisation in Germany. From 1952 to 1972 he had his own law firm in Bergen, while continuing to work on the status of refugees. He was a consultant to international organisations and governments. From 1967 to 1976 he was Principal Lecturer at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in Bergen. From 1978 to 1980 he was Professor of Law at the University of Uppsala and Director of the Swedish Institute of International Law. Finally, from 1980 until his death he was Professor of Law at the University of Bergen, Norway. He also taught in the USA and Germany.

In the field of flag research, Grahl-Madsen’s most important contribution was his work on Norwegian flag legislation. He proposed to revise the legislation concerning Norwegian flags, and put forward an new system of flags. For this purpose he produced a systematic collection of current and historical legislation concerning flags in Norway, a work that is still extremely valuable as a work of reference. He also wrote on Norwegian municipal flags and the legal status of the Aland Islands flag. Another interesting piece is his “(Draft) international flag standard” (Bergen, 1973 [mad73a] and 1974 [mad74]) «comprising the designation, classification, sizes, and colours of flags.» To the Flag Bulletin he contributed articles on the relationship of flags to heraldry and on flag usage in Norway (published after his death).

Judging from other things he published, Grahl-Madsen’s interests were diverse. He wrote works such as “Scangrid: geographical grid, polar grid, country codes, city codes, alpha and alphanumerical codes, new standard calendar” (Bergen, 1986), “A new standard calendar” (Bergen, 1984), “UNICODE 4: Alphabetical and numerical country codes” (Bergen, 1974), “Uniform vehicle registration system — EUROCODE” (Bergen, 1971), and he also wrote pieces on the standardisation of ranks of officers in the NATO countries. Clearly, he was a person with a high sense of order, a man who liked to see things properly and orderly arranged.

One might say that this interest for systematisation is reflected in some of his designs for new US state flags. Note, for instance, the way things are orderly and neatly stacked and arranged in the proposed flags for Connecticut, Oregon, and Wisconsin. Another striking feature of his proposals is the use of unusual colours, orange and purple, often together in the same design.

Grahl-Madsen’s “A Contribution to New Glory” [mad75] was his submission to the “New Glory” project launched by the Director of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art on the occasion of the Bicentennial of the American Revolution. The idea was to «foster better standards of design» for the flags of states, counties, cities, etc. Grahl-Madsen presented design ideas for 24 new state flags. I believe his compendium of proposed flags was also presented at the International Congress of Vexillology in Washington.

Jan Oskar Engene, 18 Jul 1997


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