Carl Joachim Hambro Philologist - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Jun 07, 1914 Christiania, Norway Died on 19 Feb 1985 (aged 70)

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About Carl Joachim Hambro Philologist

  • Carl Joachim Hambro (7 June 1914 – 19 February 1985) was a Norwegian novelist, journalist, essayist, translator and Romance philologist.
  • The son of the Conservative politician C.
  • J.
  • Hambro, he embarked on a philological career, graduating in 1939.
  • During the Second World War he taught at Oslo Commerce School and the Norwegian College in Uppsala.
  • After the war, he taught Norwegian at Sorbonne, whilst also working as Paris correspondent for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation and a few Norwegian daily newspapers. Born into a well-read and educated family, Hambro developed a penchant for French literature, marking an incongruity to the literary taste of his parents—they had been readers of English literature in the Anglo-American tradition.
  • Making his debut in 1960 with the satirical novel De frafalnes klubb, Hambro published trilogies and other novels for the next two decades.
  • He had a keen interest in linguistics; in the 1969 book Ting, tanke, tale he problematized linguistic questions in a popular scientific way.
  • A translator of French literature, he chaired the Norwegian Association of Literary Translators in the early 1960s.

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