Hjalmar Torp
Hjalmar Torp (born April 14, 1924 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian art historian .
Life
Torp studied at the University of Oslo . From 1949 he worked with his teacher Hans Peter L'Orange and the Danish architectural historian Ejnar Dyggve on the research of the Church of Santa Maria in Valle, the so-called Tempietto longobardo , in Cividale del Friuli . In 1950 he passed his master's degree and was then a Research Fellow at the Sorbonne in Paris . In 1959 he became assistant to the newly founded Norwegian Institute in Rome , of which he was director from 1977 to 1983. From 1983 until his retirement in 1994 he taught as professor for medieval art history at the University of Oslo.
His main areas of research are the art of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages , in particular the art of the Lombards , Coptic sculpture and the mosaics of the Galerius rotunda in Thessaloniki .
In 1967 he received the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic , in 2000 the Fridtjof Nansens belønning of the historical-philological class for outstanding research. In 2006 he became an honorary citizen of Cividale del Friuli. Since 1974 he has been a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences .
Publications (selection)
- L'architettura del tempietto di Cividale . Rome 1977
- With Bente Kiilerich: The Rotunda in Thessaloniki and its Mosaics. Kapon, Athens 2017, ISBN 978-6-1852-0911-7 .
Web links
- Hjalmar Torp fyller 90 år
- Publications by Hjalmar Torp in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Torp, Hjalmar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oslo |