Per Nykrog

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Per Nykrog (born November 1, 1925 in Copenhagen , Denmark , † September 11, 2014 in Madison , Wisconsin , United States ) was a Danish Romance and Medievalist who last taught in the United States.

life and work

Nykrog studied French and Latin at the University of Copenhagen from 1945 to 1952 . Then he went to Aarhus University and taught there as a lecturer, after his doctorate in 1957 (with a thesis on Fabliaux ) as a professor. After visiting professorships at Harvard University (1970–1971) and at the Collège de France (1978), he was appointed to Harvard in 1979 and taught there until his retirement in 1998 (from 1988 as Smith Professor of French and Spanish). Nykrog was a knight in the Dannebrogorden (1965), member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences (1975), and a knight in the Ordre national du Mérite .

Works

  • Les Fabliaux. Etude d'histoire littéraire et de stylistique médiévale , Copenhagen, Munksgaard, 1957; Geneva, Droz, 1973.
  • La Pensée de Balzac in la Comédie humaine. Esquisse de quelques concepts-clé , Copenhagen, Munksgaard; Paris, Klincksieck, 1965.
  • L'amour et la rose. Le grand dessein de Jean de Meung , Lexington, Ky, French forum, 1986.
  • La recherche du don perdu. Points de repère dans le roman de Marcel Proust , Cambridge, Department of romance languages ​​and literatures of Harvard University, 1987.
  • Chrétien de Troyes . Romancier discutable , Geneva, Droz, 1996.

literature

  • The world and its rival. Essays on literary imagination in honor of Per Nykrog , ed. by Kathryn Karczewska and Tom Conley, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1999 (with appreciation and list of publications).

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personal data
SURNAME Nykrog, Per
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish Romanist and Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen , Denmark
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 2014
Place of death Madison , Wisconsin , United States