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Mar 24, 1934 Died on 28 Dec 2012 (aged 78)
Icelandic philosopher and historian
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About Arnór Hannibalsson
- Arnór Hannibalsson (1934 - December 28, 2012) was an Icelandic philosopher, historian, and translator and former professor of philosophy at the University of Iceland.
- He completed a master's degree in philosophy at the University of Moscow and a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He was predominantly concerned with aesthetics, philosophy, history and epistemology.
- In 1975 he translated Roman Ingarden's On the Motives which led Husserl to Transcendental Idealism from Polish.
- He also contributed to journals with articles such as "Icelandic Historical Science in the Postwar Period, 1944-1957".Arnór had strong anti-Communist views and was said to have been "extremely critical of the Icelandic Socialists" in his 1999/2000 book Moskvulínan: Kommúnistaflokkur Íslands og Komintern, Halldór Laxness og Sovétríkin.He was the son of Hannibal Valdimarsson, a former minister, and had several sons and one daughter, Thora Arnorsdottir. He died on December 28, 2012.
