Hans Peter L'Orange (2 March 1903 – 5 December 1983) was a Norwegian art historian and classical archaeologist.

Biography

L'Orange was born in

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(now Oslo), Norway. He was a son of Major General Hans Wilhelm L'Orange (1868–1950) and Ginni Gulbranson (1879–1949). His family had its origin from among the French

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. He was a paternal grandson of military officer Hans Peter L'Orange (1835–1907), maternal grandson of businessowner Carl August Gulbranson (1831–1910) and brother-in-law of journalist and writer, Gunnar Larsen (1900–1958). From 1930 to 1936 he was a university fellow resident in Rome. He studied art history at the

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. He took the dr.philos. degree at the

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in 1933 with his thesis ''Studien zur Geschichte des spätantiken Porträts''. He was a professor of classical archaeology at the

from 1942 to 1973. In 1959 he and professor Hjalmar Torp established the Norwegian Institute in Rome (''Det norske institutt i Roma'') as an affiliate of the University of Oslo. The institute established a permanent Norwegian base for research and studies of the Mediterranean countries. He was director of the institute until he retired in 1973. He was a visiting professor at

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(1950) and at

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(1966–1967). In 1969 he was awarded the Arts Council Norway Honorary Award (''Norsk kulturråds ærespris''). He was awarded the

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by the

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in 1970.

Selected works

*''Apotheosis in Ancient Portraiture'' - 1947 *''Keiseren på himmeltronen'' - 1949 *''Romersk idyll'' - 1952 *''Mot middelalder'' - 1963 *''Romerske keisere i marmor og bronse''- 1967 *''Sentrum og periferi. Ni utvalgte essays'' - 1973

References

1903 births 1983 deaths Writers from Oslo Norwegian art historians Archaeologists from Oslo Norwegian people of French descent Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni University of Oslo alumni Academic staff of the University of Oslo 20th-century Norwegian writers 20th-century Norwegian archaeologists {{Norway-academic-bio-stub