Nils Ivar Agøy, Date of Birth

    

Nils Ivar Agøy

Norwegian historian

Date of Birth: 19-Nov-1959

Profession: historian, translator, theologian, linguist

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Nils Ivar Agøy

  • Nils Ivar Agøy (born 19 November 1959) is a Norwegian historian, theologian, tolkienologist and translator. He hails from Gjøvik.
  • He took the cand.philol.
  • degree in history at the University of Oslo in 1987, with the master's thesis Kampen mot vernetvangen.
  • Militærnekterspørsmålet i Norge 1885–1922.
  • The thesis chronicled and explained conscientious objection in Norway before 1922.
  • His academic advisor was Jorunn Bjørgum. Already in 1988 he graduated with the cand.theol.
  • degree in theology at the MF Norwegian School of Theology.
  • Subsequently, he was employed as a research fellow in history at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, finishing his dr.philos.
  • degree in history in 1994.
  • His thesis Militæretaten og "den indre fiende" fra 1905 til 1940.
  • Hemmelige sikkerhetsstyrker i Norge sett i et skandinavisk perspektiv explored the military precautions against "inner enemies"—defined as revolutionary segments—between the 1905 Norwegian independence and the Second World War, against a Scandinavian backdrop.
  • His doctoral advisor was Ottar Dahl. He was appointed as associate professor of modern history at Telemark University College in 1994, and was promoted to professor in 2002.
  • In 2010 he released Kirken og arbeiderbevegelsen, the result of ten years of work.
  • The book explores ties between the Church of Norway and other congregations, and the labour movement in Norway.
  • He concluded that the relations between Christians and labour leaders were less marked by strife and more by cooperation that hitherto believed.Agøy is a co-founder of Norwegian Tolkien Society Arthedain. Agøy's translation debut was J.
  • R.
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  • Tolkien's Silmarillion.
  • For this he was awarded the Bastian Prize, a translator's prize in Norway, in 1995.
  • He has later been a jury member for the children's literature class of the Bastian Prize, which is awarded by the Norwegian Association of Literary Translators.
  • In 1997 he released the second Norwegian translation of The Hobbit, and he has also translated Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth.In 2003 he released a book on J.
  • R.
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  • Tolkien himself, titled Mytenes mann ("Man of the Myths").
  • The purpose was to write an introductory Tolkien book in Norwegian, and Agøy used original Tolkien documents archived in Oxford to construct a compounded biography and analysis of Tolkien's body of work.
  • The book received a favourable review in VG; the reviewer gave a dice throw of 5 out of 6 and complimented Agøy for his "deep insight in Tolkien's world of ideas and sources of inspiration".
  • Aftenposten praised it moderately as a "readable entry portal to the world of Tolkien".He resides in Bø i Telemark, where Telemark University College is located, and is married to current secretary-general and former chair of the Church of Norway Council on Ecumenical and International Relations, Berit Hagen Agøy.

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