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

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(now Oslo), Norway. He moved with his family to

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in 1907 and returned to Kristiania in 1915. He was a son of Sigurd Høst (1866–1939) and Isabella Vibe (1870–1937). He was a great-grandson of Ludvig Vibe, and a half-brother of

Inger Alver Gløersen Inger Wenche Alver Gløersen (15 May 1892 – 2 March 1982) was a Norwegian smallholding, 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-grand ...

. He married literary researcher Else Marie Røysland (1908–1996) in 1931. Høst took his

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in 1918, and graduated from the

Royal Frederick University The University of Oslo (; ) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the oldest university in Norway. Originally named the Royal Frederick University, the university was established in 1811 as the de facto Norwegian conti ...

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 Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (; ; 29 October 1882 – 31 January 1944) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His wo ...

in 1942, and it earned him the dr.philos. 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 expatriates in France 20th-century Norwegian philologists {{Norway-academic-bio-stub