Hans Peter L'Orange (academic)
Hans Peter L'Orange was a Norwegian art historian and classical archaeologist.Biography
L'Orange was born in Kristiania as a son of Major General Hans Wilhelm L'Orange and Ginni Gulbranson. His family had its origin from among the French Huguenots. He was a paternal grandson of Hans Peter L'Orange, maternal grandson of Carl August Gulbranson, and brother-in-law of journalist and writer, Gunnar Larsen.
From 1930 to 1936 he was a university fellow resident in Rome. He took the dr.philos. degree in 1933 with his thesis Studien zur Geschichte des spätantiken Porträts. He was a professor of classical archaeology at the University of Oslo from 1942 to 1973. In 1959 he and professor Hjalmar Torpe established the Norwegian Institute in Rome as an affiliate of the University of Oslo. The institute established a permanent Norwegian base for research and studies of the Mediterranean countries. He was director of the institute until he retired in 1973.
He was a visiting professor at Harvard University and at Johns Hopkins University. In 1969 he was awarded the Arts Council Norway Honorary Award.
