Holberg


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Holberg

(ˈhɒlbɜːɡ)
n
(Biography) Ludvig, Baron. 1684–1754, Danish playwright, poet, and historian, born in Norway: considered the founder of modern Danish literature
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"Yes, that it has," said she; and she now related many pretty things out of Holberg's comedies, and about Waldemar and Absalon; but all at once she cowered together, and her head began shaking backwards and forwards, and she looked as she were going to make a spring.
Holberg, Denmark's Moliere, founded here an academy for the sons of the nobles.
We pored together over such works as the Ververt et Chartreuse of Gresset; the Belphegor of Machiavelli; the Heaven and Hell of Swedenborg; the Subterranean Voyage of Nicholas Klimm by Holberg; the Chiromancy of Robert Flud, of Jean D'Indagine, and of De la Chambre; the Journey into the Blue Distance of Tieck; and the City of the Sun by Campanella.
Paul Gilroy of King's College London has been presented the Holberg Prize by Crown Prince Haakon of Norway.
IPI Director Barbara Trionfi, Jesper Holberg of IMS, and Daoud Kuttab.
Holberg, who was fired as head coach of the Bulls last December, agreed to a seven-year, $25 million deal to direct the Cornhuskers late last week.
Mary Liz Holberg, Dakota County commissioner, former GOP House member: Frankly, I don' think that it matters.
by Jeff Luke, Scherzo; Edvard Grieg, arranged by Jeff Luke/Thomas Oltarzewski, Holberg Suite; Catherine McMichael, Asteria; Rene Orth, Leaguered in Fire, Lagooned in Gold; Isaac Albeniz, arr.
Rem, in his position as chairman of the company's board of directors and also representing Kistefos AS/Viking Invest AS; Lena Patriksson Keller, representing Enneff Rederi AB/Enneff Fastigheter AB/Enneff Intressenter AB and Tom Olav Holberg, representing Kistefos AS/Viking Invest AS.
This sense of immediacy was particularly so in the ensemble's interpretation of Grieg's popular Holberg Suite.
The event, on April 23 at 6pm, is part of the cathedral's concert series and will see the orchestra, led by David Hlawiczka, perform pieces including Edvard Grieg's Holberg Suite, as well as Bela BartEk's Romanian Folk Dances.