Johan Fredrik Paasche (3 February 1886 – 1 September 1943) was a Norwegian educator, author and literary historian.

Biography

Johan Fredrik Amundsen was born at

Bindal Bindal is a municipality in the Helgeland region in the extreme southwest part of Nordland county, Norway. The administrative centre is the village of Terråk. Other villages include Bindalseidet, Holm, Vassås, Horsfjord and Åbygda. The m ...

Nordland Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, the least populous of all 11 counties, bordering Troms og Finnmark in the north, Trøndelag in the south, N ...

, Norway. He was the son of Olaf Kristian Amundsen (1850–1910) and Kirsten Birgitte Paasche (1850–1915). His brother

Olaf Amundsen Olaf Amundsen (13 May 1876–12 December 1939) was a Norway, Norwegian lawyer and politician for the Venstre (Norway), Liberal Party. Amundsen was elected to the Parliament of Norway for the parliamentary terms 1910-1912 and 1913–1918. F ...

served as County Governor of Nordland. In 1905, he took his mother's surname, Paasche. He graduated from the University of Oslo in 1910. In 1916, he traveled to Germany where he was a war correspondent. He was appointed a professor of European literature in 1920 at the University of Oslo and professor of Middle Age literature from 1938 until 1940. He relocated to Sweden following the German invasion of Norway. From 1941 onward he was associated with Uppsala University, where he was appointed an honorary doctorate in theology. He co-edited the series ''Norsk litteraturhistorie'', planned jointly with Francis Bull from 1911, of which he wrote volume one (on Norway's and Iceland's literature until the end of the Middle Ages, published from 1923 to 1926) and volume three (on Norwegian literature from 1814 to the 1850s, published from 1927 to 1932). In 1922, he was awarded the King's Medal of Merit (''Kongens Fortjenstmedalje''). His other books include ''Gildet paa Solhaug. Ibsens nationalromantiske digtning'' (1908), ''Luther'' (1917), ''Goethe'' (1918), ''Kong Sverre'' (1920), ''Snorre Sturlason og Sturlungerne'' (1922) and ''Landet med de mørke skibene'' (1938). He was married twice, both times to Swedish women. In 1916, he married Agnes Viveka Aimée Hamilton (1891–1917), a daughter of Count Hugo E. G. Hamilton. In 1928, he married Eva Kristina Mörner (1889–1992). He died in Uppsala, Sweden and was buried at Vår Frelsers gravlund in Oslo.

References

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