Jørgen Haave

Jørgen Haave (born 1971) is a Norwegian literary scholar and the senior curator and director of the Henrik Ibsen Museum in Skien, a part of Telemark Museum. He is especially known for his Ibsen biography, Familien Ibsen (2017), and is one of the foremost contemporary Ibsen scholars; alongside Jon Nygaard he has been central in a scholarly reassessment of older myths pertaining to Ibsen's background and childhood, and their influence upon his work.[1] He has also written books about Peter Wessel Zapffe. He was appointed as director of Henrik Ibsen Museum in 2008.[2][3] He was awarded the second prize of the Hjernekraft prize of the Norwegian Association of Researchers in 2017 for his work on Ibsen.[4]

Jørgen Haave
Born1971 (age 49–50)
Bergen, Norway
OccupationLiterary scholar, senior curator and director of the Henrik Ibsen Museum

Selected works
  • Kulturelt nødverge: Zapffes etterlatte skrifter, Pax forlag, 1997
  • Naken under kosmos, Pax forlag, 1999
  • Familien Ibsen, Museumsforlaget, 2017

References
  1. Sanna, Anniken (February 26, 2017). "Nye funn kan endre historien om Ibsen". NRK.
  2. "– Ibsen har bare blitt en logo", Telemarksavisa, 9 May 2008
  3. Berge, Kristin (March 19, 2019). "Ibsenforsker har blitt førstekonservator NMF". Telemark Museum.
  4. "– En forsker med stor formidlingsevne. Vi ble bergtatt". www.forskerforum.no.
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