Francis Bull

Francis Bull ( born October 4, 1887 in Christiania; † 4 July 1974 in Hørsholm, Denmark) was a Norwegian literary historian and professor at the University of Oslo.

Life

Bull was the son of Edvard Isak Hambro Bull and his wife Ida Marie Sofie Paludan. His brother was Edvard Bull, the Norwegian Foreign Minister in 1928. His family was wealthy and educated. His father also worked as a theater doctor, which also went Francis Bull regularly to the theater. After finishing school in 1905 he studied in Oslo literary history, mainly with Gerhard Gran 1916, he received his doctoral degree with his work Fra Holberg till Nordahl Brun.

1920 Francis Bull was appointed as successor Grans professor of Scandinavian literature at the University of Oslo. In the same year he became a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences. 1926 married Francis Bull Ingrid Berntsen ( 1896-1957 ).

1941 Bull was arrested and was imprisoned until 1944 in the concentration camp Grini. There he held his fellow lectures, were thirteen of which were later published as the book Tretten tal på Grini. After the war he returned to Oslo, where he returned to his chair. 1957 Bull became Professor Emeritus.

1946 appointed the University of Aarhus Bull honorary doctorate. In 1957 the Commander's Cross with Star, the second highest level of Olav's Order, he was awarded.

Work

Bull -authored with Johan Fredrik Paasche the five-volume Norsk litteraturhistorie and was co-author of the Encyclopedia Norsk biografisk leksikon, which was edited by his brother Edvard together with Gerhard Gran. Bull also was one of the founders of the Norwegian Academy.