Øivind Andersen#
| Membership Number: | 3728 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | NORWAY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - 2015 Secretary General, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- 1997 - 2014 Professor of Classical Philology, in particular Greek, University of Oslo
- 1989 - 1993 Director of the Norwegian Institute at Athens for Classical Studies, Archaeology and Cultural History
- 1980 - 1996 Professor of Classics, University of Trondheim
- 1978 - 1979 University lecturer in Ancient History, University of Oslo
Fields of Scholarship
- Homer and early epic
- Ancient rhetoric
- Greek philosophy
- Greek tragedy
Honours and Awards
- 1981 Full member (at the age of 36) of the Royal Norwegian Society for Arts and Letters, functioning as a member of the Board of the same between 1985 and 1988
- 1987 Full member of "Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi" (The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters), being elected as a member of its Board for more than ten years after 2001.
- 1995 Recognized for contributing to cultural cooperation between Greece and Norway as "Chévalier of the order of Merit of the Greek state"
- 2013 Full member of World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS)
- 2014 Corresponding member of Bayerische Akademie der Wissenshaften, Munich
