Kåre Langvik-Johannessen, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About Kåre Langvik-Johannessen
- Kåre Johannes Langvik-Johannessen (10 April 1919 – 27 October 2014) was a Norwegian philologist, literary historian and translator.He was born in Onsøy as a son of manager Hans Johannessen (1889–1986) and Betzy Langvik (1887–1963).
- He finished his secondary education in 1939 in Fredrikstad, and during the Second World War he studied piano and organ, and took commerce school.
- He enrolled in Norwegian studies at the University of Oslo in 1946, and graduated with the cand.mag.
- degree in 1948.
- The same year he travelled to the Hague to study Dutch language and literature.
- He took another degree at the University of Oslo in 1955 with the master's thesis Det bibelske drama i Nederlandene før Joost van den Vondel.
- In 1963 he took the dr.philos.
- degree on the topic Joost van den Vondel with the thesis Zwischen Himmel und Erde (1963).He was a docent from 1965 and professor from 1972 until his retirement in 1989, both at the University of Oslo.
- He has also been a guest professor at the Catholic University of Leuven.
- Another important book about Joost van den Vondel, Het treurspel spant de kroon, came in 1987.
- Langvik-Johannessen has also studied Franz Grillparzer (the book Im Namen kaiserlicher Majestät, 1975) as well as the Rederijkers and Flemish drama.
- His 1980 book Nederlandenes litteratur gjennom 800 år is a collection of several lesser works.
- He also won the Bastian Prize in 1996 for translating John of Ruysbroeck's The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage into Norwegian.In 1999 he was decorated as a Knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of St.
- Olav.
- He was married twice, first to actress Ingrid Bothner from 1949 to 1959, then to Annika Lønnå (1936–2006) in 1965.
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