Didrik Arup Seip(31 August 1884 – 3 May 1963) was a professor of North Germanic languages at theUniversity of Oslo.
He earned his doctorate (dr.philos.) in 1916 and was appointed professor the same year, retiring in 1954. Together with Herman Jæger, he edited and published the collected works ofHenrik Wergelandin 23 volumes (Samlede Skrifter: trykt og utrykt,1918–1940). From 1937 until 1945, he served as therectorof the university.
Seip was a member of theAdministrative Council,the temporary civil government of Norway duringGerman military occupation,in 1940. He was removed from his post as rector of the university in 1941. He was interned by the Nazis atGrini concentration camp,and was later transferred toSachsenhausen,but was released in 1943 as a direct result of the efforts made by theSwedishexplorerSven Hedin,using Hedin's relations with many high-ranking German Nazi officials, includingHitler.He wrote about his life during the war in his 1946 book: At home and in enemy country.[1]
Even while being held prisoner, Seip carried out official university ceremonies, including the immatriculation of some students who also were imprisoned in Germany during the war.
He was an honorary doctor at the University of Hamburg (1938) and at Sorbonne (1945). He obtained the NorwegianOrder of St. Olav(1945).
He was also an editorial committee member ofNorsk biografisk leksikon.[2]
He was the grandfather of professor of pediatricsOla Didrik Saugstad.
Bibliography
editTuneld, John (1981):Didrik Arup Seip: en bibliografiDet Norske Samlaget.ISBN9788252118728
References
edit- ^Seip, Didrik Arup. 1946. Hjemme og i fiendeland 1940-45. Gyldendal norsk forlag.
- ^Jansen, Einar;Jansen, Jonas;Anker, Øyvind;Bøe, Gunvald,eds. (1962).Norsk biografisk leksikon(in Norwegian). Vol. 14 (1st ed.). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. title page.
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