Didrik Arup Seip

Didrik Arup Seip (born August 31, 1884 , † May 3, 1963 ) was a Norwegian linguist for North Germanic languages and professor and rector of the University of Oslo .

In 1937 Seip became rector of Oslo University. Because of protests against the German occupation forces that had taken place there during the milk strike , he was removed from his position on September 11, 1941 and initially interned in the Grini police prisoner camp and, from April 1942, in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . After intercession by the Swedish researcher Sven Hedin and the völkisch Germanist Joseph Otto Plassmann , he was released at the turn of the year 1942/43. But then Seip stayed in Germany and received a research contract from Himmler's Ahnenerbe Research Association, in which Plassmann held a leading position.

After the German occupation Seip was in April 1940 one of the seven members of the temporarily entrusted with the administration of Norway Management Committee .

Seip was one of the editors of the Norwegian Biographical Lexicon and was accepted into the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences on April 8, 1938 . Also in 1938 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Hamburg and in 1945 that of the Sorbonne ; in the same year he was awarded the Saint Olav Order .

Oslo pediatric professor Ola Didrik Saugstad is a grandson of Seip.

literature

Tuneld, John (1981): Didrik Arup Seip: en bibliografi im Det Norske Samlaget ISBN 8-252118-72-0

Web links

Commons : Didrik Arup Seip - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Didrik Arup Seip in the catalog of the German National Library
Didrik Arup Seip in the Norsk biografisk leksikon

Individual evidence

↑ Norsk biografisk leksikon, Didrik Arup Seip : retrospectively he is nominally rector until 1945, since he was invalidly removed from his office by the Nazi occupation authorities.
↑ Norway under German Occupation : In this unidentified text, however, the arrest is dated in December 1943 and Seip seems to have been rector at the time.
↑ Gerd Simon : The German scientist Plassmann

predecessor	Office	successor
Sem Sæland	Rector of the University of Oslo 1937–1941	Adolf Hoel

personal data
SURNAME	Seip, Didrik Arup
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Norwegian linguist and university rector
DATE OF BIRTH	August 31, 1884
DATE OF DEATH	May 3, 1963

[1] Norsk biografisk leksikon, Didrik Arup Seip : retrospectively he is nominally rector until 1945, since he was invalidly removed from his office by the Nazi occupation authorities.

[2] Norway under German Occupation : In this unidentified text, however, the arrest is dated in December 1943 and Seip seems to have been rector at the time.

[3] Gerd Simon : The German scientist Plassmann