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Professor emeritus, Dr. philos. Egil Kraggerud.
Born 7th of July 1939 in S. Høland, Akershus, Norway, studied classics at the University of Oslo 1958-1964, research scholar 1965-1967, university lecturer in Latin 1967-1968, professor of classical philology at the University of Oslo 1969-2002, from 1972 to 1994 largely responsible for editing Symbolae Osloenses. Member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters 1974, The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters 1985, Academia Europaea 1989. From 1997 to 2016 member of the International Commission for Thesaurus linguae Latinae, Munich. President of the Virgil Society, London, 2005-2008, Honorary Vice-President 2013-. Awards: Det Norske Akademis Pris til minne om Thorleif Dahl in 1992; Fridtjof Nansens belønning for fremragende forskning 2018 (The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters).
Main scholarly interests:
Problems of text and interpretation, particularly in Vergil and Horace:
Particular, mostly old problems, have in the course of time become more dominant in my research.
Vergiliana A.8, 23, 29, 30, 34, 35, 40, 41, 43, 45, 51, 57, 61 (but cf. 75), 65, 67, 69, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 84, 85, 86, 88, 89, 90, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 101, 106, 107, 108, 109, 111; cf. also B88 & 92.
See now E.K., Critica. Textual Issues in Horace, Ennius, Vergil and Other Authors, Abingdon: Routledge (Taylor & Francis) 2020/2021, p. 316. For the Contents on pp. v-vii see the original emoji version sub "ARTICLES".
Horace: A7, 13, 20, 54, 60, 63, 66, 72, 78, 79, 83, 93, 94, 104, 110. See now E.K., Critica (above), p. 11-163.
My original conjectures: Carm. 1. 28. 32 supernae (superbae) (2016); Carm. 4. 8. 10 rerum est (res est) (2013); Carm. 4. 8. 18 illi (eius) with deletion of 14--17) (2014); Carm. 4. 15. 31 Troianum (Troiamque/ Troiamve) (2013); Ep. 1. 1. 78 avari (avaras); Ep. 2. 1. 46 vello (vello et) (2004); Ep. 2. 1. 133 vati ('vatem) (2004); Ars 254 non ita longe (non ita pridem) (2004), 121-123; Ars 353 natura? (natura.) (2004), 123-126.
As to my international contributions to other classical authors see A5 & 11 (Tacitus), 12 (Varro Atacinus), 31 (Pap. Herc. 817), 33 (Sophocles with Eirik Welo). 38 (Catullus), 39 & 48 (Historia Augusta), 58 (Sallust), 62 (Catullus) , 70 (Naevius), 71 (Sallust) and the above-mentioned CRITICA.
Literary criticism applied to Vergil and Horace:
Apart from my monographs A4 (on Vergil's Aeneid) and A15 (on Horace's political epodes) I would mention under this heading: A 3, 14, 22, 46, 47, 59 (Vergil) and 10, 11, 18, 24, 42 (Horace) while emphasizing that for me there is no line of demarcation between textual and literary criticism.
Poets and authors and the city of Rome:
My book (in Norwegian), B90, may to a large extent be considered as work in progress on topics some of which I partly hope to present in English as well. Related to this theme is e.g. A36.
Latin in Norway 1100-1800
I organized from 1987 onwards teamwork on the so-called Oslo Humanists, a project which had as its results two editions B24 and B76 (apart from editions in the form of dissertations by my pupils, the late Inger Ekrem and Vibeke Roggen). In this connection I edited Akrostikhis (1591/1606) by Halvard Gunnarssøn and Elegidion (1581) by Jens Nilssøn. - In the latter part of the nineties I became involved in the more long-term endeavours to create new editions of our monumenta historica, a project conducted by Professor Lars Boje Mortensen. My part of the project, an edition of Theodoricus [Monachus], De antiquitate regum Norwagiensium, was published in Aug. 2018 (Novus Press). - I have supervised the greater part of the Norwegian translation of Tormod Torfæus' Historia rerum Norvegicarum (1711) and edited and translated Torfaeus' Vinlandia antiqua for a second edition.
Cf. also A44, 53, 55, 64, B7, 23, 27, 30, 32, 33, 34, 37, 38, 42, 45, 50, 52, 56, 58, 59, 61, 64, 65, 68, 73, 89, 99.
Henrik Ibsen and antiquity:
In 1998 I became attached to the great editorial project "Henrik Ibsens Skrifter" (HIS) under the leadership of Vigdis Ystad and Asbjørn Aarseth. As the classicist of the project I was particularly involved in the commentaries on Catilina (B82) and Kejser og Galilæer (B87). As an offshoot of B82 I published my book Catilina og Ibsen, Oslo 2005 (B80).
Cf. also B54, 79, 85, 86.