Jørgen Haave

Jørgen Haave
Born	1971 (age 53–54) Bergen, Norway
Occupation(s)	Literary scholar, senior curator and director of the Henrik Ibsen Museum

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, The Ibsen Family (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]

Haave published a biography of Peter Wessel Zapffe in 1999 and graduated in history of literature in 2003 with a thesis on Ibsen's Ghosts. 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] In 2019 he became a senior curator.

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.