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Holberg

British  
/ ˈhɒlbɜːɡ /

noun

  1. Ludvig, Baron. 1684–1754, Danish playwright, poet, and historian, born in Norway: considered the founder of modern Danish literature

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Lish died in 2024 and Holberg two years earlier, but still the symphony played on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2025

He received the Holberg Prize in 2013 and the Kyoto Prize in 2021, each considered the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the humanities and social sciences.

From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2022

Above its door are carved in stone the names of the first three dramatists staged there during the gala opening week in 1899: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Ludvig Holberg and Ibsen.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 6, 2019

“That stretch last season is where the optimism comes from,” Holberg said.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 25, 2018

Holberg has been so cautious as to make Hamburg the scene of his comedy, for it would certainly not have been tolerated if the action had been made to take place at Copenhagen.

From Ludvig Holberg, The Founder of Norwegian Literature and an Oxford Student by Simon Christian Hammer

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