Gunnar Fougner Høst (12 August 1900 – 5 August 1983) was a Norwegian philologist and literary historian. He was a lecturer at the University of Oslo from 1930 to 1968.

Biography

He was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. He moved with his family to Bergen in 1907 and returned to Kristiania in 1915. He was a son of

Sigurd Høst Sigurd Høst (22 January 1866 – 21 August 1939) was a Norwegian educationalist and textbook writer. Biography Høst was born in Flora to physician Ude Jacob Høst (1834-1918) and Lorentze Schulrud (1837–99). He graduated as philologist ...

(1866–1939) and Isabella Vibe (1870–1937). He was a great-grandson of

Ludvig Vibe Frederik Ludvig Vibe (26 September 1803 – 21 June 1881) was a Norwegian classical philologist and educator. He was Professor of Greek language at the Royal Frederick University from 1838. Vibe was born in Bergen as a son of County Governor, Gen ...

, and a half-brother of

Inger Alver Gløersen Inger Wenche Alver Gløersen (15 May 1892 – 2 March 1982) was a Norwegian smallholder and writer. Biography She was born in Fåberg to teacher Johan Ludvig Alver (1848–1897) and Isabella Vibe (1870–1937). She was a great-granddaughter of ...

. He married literary researcher Else Marie Røysland (1908–1996) in 1931. Høst took his examen artium in 1918, and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the cand.philol. degree in 1925. He was a teacher at Trondhjem Cathedral School from 1925 to 1927, and at Sorbonne from 1927 to 1930. He worked at the Royal Frederick University from 1930, but was not promoted to lecturer until 1937. Together with his colleagues Peter Rokseth (1891-1945) and Charles Gobinot (1891-1954), he formed part of the French group at the university during the 1930s. He released the work ''L'œuvre de Jean Giraudoux'' about Jean Giraudoux in 1942, and it earned him the

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degree in 1945. He was promoted to

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in 1965, and retired in 1968. He also published a number of textbooks. His last book releases came in 1970 and 1971, co-written with his wife. He died in August 1983 in Oslo.

Selected works

*''Le livre du maître'', 1947 *''Franske lesestykker'', 1954 *''Fransk lesning I'' (with Else Høst), 1970 *''Fransk lesning II'' (with Else Høst), 1971

References

1900 births 1983 deaths University of Oslo alumni Academic staff of the University of Paris Academic staff of the University of Oslo Norwegian philologists Norwegian expatriates in France 20th-century philologists {{Norway-academic-bio-stub