Knut Kleve

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Knut Kleve (born February 24, 1926 in Oslo , Norway ; † February 11, 2017 ) was a Norwegian classical philologist .

Life

Kleve, the son of the wholesaler Alfred Lauritz Kleve and Miriam Blom Bakke, was a member of the resistance movement during the German occupation of Norway. He was captured in May 1942 and held at Møllergata 19 and the Grini Police Detention Center until June 1944 . During his imprisonment, he met the fellow-prisoner professor of classical philology Eiliv Skard , who taught him Latin. In 1945 he completed his school attendance at the Kristelig Gymnasium in Oslo with the examen artium . He graduated from the University of Oslo as cand. Mag.from. In 1957 he began teaching at the University of Oslo. In his dissertation he dealt with the doctrine of the gods in Epicureanism , including the writing De natura deorum by Marcus Tullius Cicero . The work from 1963 is entitled Gnosis theon. The doctrine of the natural knowledge of God in Epicurean theology . From the same year he was a professor at the University of Bergen . From then on he developed an interest in the Epicurean library at Herculaneum , which had been excavated in the mid-18th century. He participated in the deciphering of papyrus fragments. 1974 Kleve became a professor at the University of Oslo. Together with Brynjulf ​​Fosse, he developed a method for restoring carbonized papyrus fragments. From 1983 he was in charge of restoration work at the Centro Internazionale per lo Studio dei Papiri Ercolanesi in Naples . Through this work fragments of Lucretius , Ennius and Caecilius Statius could be recovered. Kleve was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences .

Kleve was married to Ragnhild Abusdal from 1951 to 1952, to Esther Thylander from 1957 to 1972, to the psychologist Kari Aud Ljøstad from 1972, and to Liv Jorunn Storstein from 1974 to 1992.

Fonts (selection)

  • List of publications up to 1996 in Symbolae Osloenses 71 (1996), pp. 237-246.
  • The “original movement” of the Epicurean atoms and the eternity of the gods , in: Symbolae Osloenses 35 (1959), pp. 55-62.
  • Gnosis Theon. The doctrine of the natural knowledge of God in Epicurean theology. Starting point of the study: Cicero, De natura deorum I (= Symbolae Osloenses Fasc. Suppl. 19). 1963.
  • Lucretius in Herculaneum , in: Cronache Ercolanesi 19 (1989), pp. 5-27.
  • Ennius in Herculaneum , in: Cronache Ercolanesi 20 (1990) pp. 5-16.
  • Three technical guides to the papyri of Herculaneum: how to unroll, how to remove sovrapposti, how to take pictures , in: Cronache Ercolanesi 21 (1991), pp. 111-124.
  • How to read an Illegible Papyrus. Towards an edition of PHerc. 78, Caecilius Statius, Obolostates sive Faenerator , in: Cronache Ercolanesi 26 (1996), pp. 5-12.
  • Lucretius' Book II in P. Herc. 395 , in: Bernhard Palme (Ed.), Files of the 23rd International Papyrology Congress. Vienna 2007, pp. 347–354, PDF .

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personal data
SURNAME Kleve, Knut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo , Norway
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 2017