Gunnar Rudberg (17 October 1880 – 6 August 1954) was an internationally renowned

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classical philologist. He was the father of

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Life

In 1919, after being Associate Professor of Greek Language and Literature in Uppsala, Rudberg became Professor of Classical Philology in Oslo. From 1933 until his retirement in 1945 he was Professor of Greek Language and Literature in Uppsala. Rudberg contributed to the scientific journal for Classical Philology Eranos – Acta philologica Suecana. With

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he edited the scientific journal '' Symbolæ osloenses''.

Works

* Poseidonios från Apameia (1916) * Atlantis och Syrakusai (1917), English: Atlantis and Syracuse (2012) * Forschungen zu Poseidonios (1918) * Kristus och Platon (1920) * Platon, hans person och verk (1922) * Poseidonios, en Hellenismens Lærer og Profet (1924) * Kring Platons Phaidros (1924) * Hellas och Nya Testamentet (1929) * Platonica selecta, with Postscript of his son Folke Rudberg (1956, English)

External links

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Biography in Nordisk Familjebok, 1926

Biography in Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, 2012
1880 births 1954 deaths Classical philologists Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Swedish philologists 20th-century philologists {{Sweden-linguist-stub