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About Henning Mørland
- Knud Henning Mørland (27 March 1903 – 22 August 1989), was a Norwegian classical scholar and translator. Mørland graduated from high school in 1921 and received his candidatus philologiæ degree with a major in Latin and a minor in Greek and history in 1927.
- He studied abroad in Germany, France and Sweden where he attended seminars on Late Latin by Einar Löfstedt.
- He earned his PhD in 1932 with a dissertation on Latin translations of the Greek physician Oribasius.
- He served as professor of classical philology at the University of Oslo from 1949 to 1973.
- His research interests included the use of names in the works of Virgil as well as comparative constructions in Latin.Mørland was a productive translator of classical literature at a time when few of the central works had been translated into bokmål.
- He published 19 volumes of translations – over 5,000 pages – comprising texts by Plato, Apuleius, Cicero, Tacitus, Herodotus and Xenophon.
- His translations received generally positive reviews; however, his choice to put readability first even if it meant sacrificing some of the authors' individual stylistic characteristics was sometimes criticized.
- His translation of the History of the Peloponnesian War was particularly praised and was re-published in 2007.Apart from translations, Mørland also published several textbooks as well as a new edition of Latinsk ordbok, a Latin-Norwegian dictionary by Jan Johanssen, Marius Nygaard and Emil Schreiner.Mørland was elected member of several learned societies: of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1943, the Norwegian Academy in 1973 and the Royal Society of the Humanities at Uppsala in 1964.
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