Johannes Waage Løvhaug (born 1967) is a Norwegian historian and editor-in-chief of the gazette Apollon of the Universitet of Oslo.^[1] He is cand.philol with history of ideas as his main interest.^[2] He has studied ideological at the Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf.^{[clarification needed][2]}

In 2003, he published the book Politikk som idékamp, about the history of the Norwegian conservative periodical Minerva between 1957 and 1972.^[3] In this book, he claimed that the community associated with Minerva represented an important counter-weight and middle way between the Marxian movement in AKP(m-l) and the libertarian November^{[clarification needed]} associated with the organisation Libertas and the periodical Farmand.^[4] The book received mostly good critics by reviewers.^{[3][4][5][6][7]}