Gunnar Rudberg (17 October 1880 – 6 August 1954) was an internationally renowned Swedish classical philologist. He was the father of geomorphologist Sten Rudberg.

Life

In 1919, after being Associate Professor of Greek Language and Literature in

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, Rudberg became Professor of Classical Philology in

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. From 1933 until his retirement in 1945 he was Professor of

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and Literature in Uppsala. Rudberg contributed to the scientific journal for Classical Philology Eranos – Acta philologica Suecana. With Samson Eitrem 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 20th-century Swedish philologists {{Sweden-linguist-stub