Jørgen Haave (born 1971) is a Norwegian literary scholar and the senior curator and director of the

Henrik Ibsen Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playw ...

Museum in Skien, a part of

Telemark Museum The Telemark Museum is a museum in Telemark, Norway. It includes several buildings across Telemark and is headquartered in Kleiva in the older part of Skien in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. The main museum building is located within walkin ...

. He is especially known for his Ibsen biography, ''Familien Ibsen'' (2017), and is one of the foremost contemporary Ibsen scholars; alongside Jon Nygaard he has been central in a scholarly reassessment of older myths pertaining to Ibsen's background and childhood, and their influence upon his work. Haave published a biography of

Peter Wessel Zapffe Peter Wessel Zapffe (18 December 1899 – 12 October 1990) was a Norwegian philosopher, author, artist, lawyer and mountaineer. He is often noted for his philosophically pessimistic and fatalistic view of human existence. His system of ph ...

in 1999 and graduated in

history of literature The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry that attempt to provide entertainment, enlightenment, or instruction to the reader/listener/observer, as well as the development of the literary techniques ...

in 2003 with a thesis on Ibsen's ''

Ghosts A ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that is believed to be able to appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to rea ...

''. He was appointed as director of Henrik Ibsen Museum in 2008. He was awarded the second prize of the Hjernekraft prize of the Norwegian Association of Researchers in 2017 for his work on Ibsen. In 2019 he became a senior curator.

Selected works

*''Kulturelt nødverge: Zapffes etterlatte skrifter'', Pax forlag, 1997 *''Naken under kosmos'', Pax forlag, 1999 *''Familien Ibsen'', Museumsforlaget, 2017

References

1971 births Norwegian literary historians Henrik Ibsen researchers Living people {{Norway-academic-bio-stub