The Holberg Prize is named after the Danish-Norwegian author Ludvig Holberg

 Ludvig Holberg

The Holberg Prize is named after the Danish-Norwegian author Ludvig Holberg, who participates in most of the areas covered by the award. Holberg played a significant role in bringing the Enlightenment into the Nordic nations and is also well-known as a playwright and writer.


He played a vital part in bringing the Enlightenment into the Nordic states and at the modernization of numerous academic areas and teaching procedures. He also set the basis for international law as an academic discipline in Denmark-Norway.


Versatile scholar and writer

Ludvig Holberg is possibly best called a playwright and an writer, and many of the works are translated into a range of languages. He's recalled, among other functions, because of his thesis Intro to Organic and International Law, the theatre plays Jeppe about the Hill, The Fidget and Erasmus Montanus, also for its publication Nils Klim's Subterranean Journey.


The Nils Klim Prize is called after the protagonist of Ludvig Holberg's book Nils Klim's Subterranean Journey out of 1741. The book tells the story of Nils Klim that, while investigating a cave in Bergen, falls right into a subterranean world in which he comes across several distinct creatures and societies. From the convention of other literary travelogues of this period, such as Thomas More's Utopia along with Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Holberg informs us at the real spirit of the Enlightenment, the planet is a much larger place than has been previously assumed and it is home to many highly disparate all-natural states and societies, habits and traditions.

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