Bjarte Birkeland

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Bjarte Birkeland (born December 26, 1920 in Fana , Norway , † 2000 ) was a Norwegian literary historian .

Life

Birkeland was the son of Martin Birkeland , a community college teacher , and Målfrid Skard . He studied from 1940 to 1948 and then became a teacher in Askim and from 1953 at the Landgymnasium Eidsvoll . In 1962 he received his doctorate and in 1969 he was appointed professor of Nordic literary history at the University of Bergen . He worked there until 1984. Since 1975 he has also been a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences .

Act

Birkeland's research focused primarily on literature in Nynorsk . In 1950 and 1976 he published writings on Olav Duun ; in his doctoral thesis he dealt with Per Sivle . Birkeland was also one of the authors of the Norsk litteraturhistorie (Norwegian literary history), which appeared in four volumes in 1975, and the book Nazismen og norsk litteratur (Nazism and Norwegian literature), also published in 1975 .

From 1960 to 1968 Birkeland was editor of Syn og Segn magazine .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Birkeland, Bjarte in: Hvem er hvem? . Kunnskapsforlaget, Oslo 1984
  2. ↑ Horst Bien: Birkeland, Bjarte in: Meyers Taschenlexikon Northern European Literature . Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1978
  3. ↑ Bjarte Birkeland in: Store norske leksikon .
personal data
SURNAME Birkeland, Bjarte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Fana (Bergen) , Norway
DATE OF DEATH 2000