death_place death_date birth_place birth_date article_title name occupation
iceland july 28 , 2005 -lrb- aged 88 -rrb- iceland may 20 , 1917 bergur sigurbjörnsson
 bergur sigurbjörnsson editor , politician
bergur sigurbjörnsson

bergur sigurbjörnsson -lrb- may 20 , 1917 -- july 28 , 2005 -rrb- was an icelandic magazine editor and politician .
he studied business in the university of iceland , and later went on to study economics in stockholm university .
he founded the weekly magazine , `` frjáls þjóð '' -lrb- ` free nation ' -rrb- in 1952 , and was the magazine 's editor until 1967 .
he was a prominent supporter of hannibal valdimarsson 's campaign to be elected to the alþing as an independent .
he himself ventured into politics , forming the national preservation party in 1953 , for which he was a member between 1953 and 1956 .
he was a proponent of complete self-determination for iceland , and as such , strongly opposed both iceland 's membership of nato and the 1951 american occupation of iceland .
