Vigdis Ystad (13 January 1942 – 7 December 2019) was a Norwegian literary historian.

Biography

She was born in

Verdal Municipality Verdal is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the List of towns and cities in ...

, Norway. In 1974 she became

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at the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo (; ) is a public university, public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation#Europe, oldest university in Norway. Originally named the Royal Frederick Univ ...

. She was a university lecturer at the

1973–74, lecturer 1975–79 and professor from 1979. She was a member of the

Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Its purpose is to support the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway. History The Royal Frederick University in Christiania was establis ...

, the

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, the Royal Academy of Science and Antiquities, the

Norwegian Academy The Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature (), commonly known as the Norwegian Academy, is a Norwegian learned body on matters pertaining to the modern Norwegian language in its Dano-Norwegian variety, now commonly known as Riksmål and Bok ...

and the Norwegian Language and Literature Society. In 2012, Vigdis Ystad was appointed a knight of the 1st class of the

Order of St. Olav The Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav (; or ''Sanct Olafs Orden'', the old Norwegian name) is a Norwegian order of chivalry instituted by King Oscar I on 21 August 1847. It is named after King Olav II, known to posterity as St. Olav. Just be ...

. She was married to fellow literary historian Daniel Haakonsen (1917–1989). She died in December 2019.

References

1942 births 2019 deaths People from Verdal Norwegian literary historians University of Oslo alumni Academic staff of the University of Oslo Henrik Ibsen researchers {{Norway-historian-stub