Holberg
Britishnoun
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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, who rather early reacted instinctively and strongly to all strokes of spontaneousness, very soon conceived a deep dislike and contempt for these pedagogic methods, and his power of reflection made its combinations and conclusions.
From Ludvig Holberg, The Founder of Norwegian Literature and an Oxford Student by Simon Christian Hammer
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