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
His many honors included the Holberg Prize, an award recognizing academic scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, law and theology, which he won in 2009.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2023
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
Holberg says the park’s measure of success was set too high.
From Washington Times • Feb. 5, 2017
As a matter of course, Holberg also introduces to us what we may call "the Latin fool."
From Ludvig Holberg, The Founder of Norwegian Literature and an Oxford Student by Hammer, Simon Christian
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