Ivar Sagmo

Ivar Sagmo (* 1941 ) is a Norwegian literary scholar .

Life

Ivar Sagmo is professor emeritus for German literary studies at the Institute for Literature, Cultural Studies and European Languages ​​at the University of Oslo in Norway .

His main scientific research interests include works from the pre-classical period , from the classical period to the romantic period . The authors Johann Gottfried Herder , Christoph Martin Wieland , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Georg Büchner are at the center of his literary research. In his scholarly work on Sophie von La Roche , he examined aspects of female writing .

Ivar Sagmo's preoccupation with German literature extends to literary modernism and also includes contemporary German-speaking authors . In various articles he examined the prose of Thomas Bernhard and Peter Schneider .

In addition to his work as a literary scholar , Ivar Sagmo also worked as a literary historian . He wrote overview reports on the history of German studies in Norway and the reception of German-language literature in Norway.

Publications (selection)

• Bildungsroman and philosophy of history. A study on Goethe's novel “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Years”. Bouvier, Bonn 1982, ISBN 3-416-01653-X .
• Dietetics of Passions: Sophie von La Roche and her “Beautiful Image of Resignation”. In: Kurt Erich Schöndorf, Elin Nesje Vestli, Thomas Jung (eds.): Step out of the shadows. Aspects of female writing between the Middle Ages and Romanticism. Peter Lang, 2000, ISBN 3-631-37567-0 , pp. 45-58.
• On Herder's concept for the "use" of Nordic mythology. In: Regine Otto, John H. Zammito (ed.): From self- thinking . Enlightenment and Enlightenment criticism in Herder's ideas on the philosophy of the history of mankind. Synchron Wissenschaftsverlag der Autor, 2001, ISBN 3-935025-25-4 , pp. 87-98.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ivar Sagmo in the catalog of the German National Library