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About Egil Kraggerud
- Egil Kraggerud (born 7 July 1939) is a Norwegian philologist. He was born in Hemnes as a son of dentist John Kraggerud (1903–1991) and teacher Borghild Johanne Westeren (1904–1988).
- He took the examen artium at Oslo Cathedral School in 1957, and studied classical philology for five years at the University of Oslo.
- He took examinations in Latin and Greek in 1963 and 1964, but not the cand.philol.
- degree.
- Nonetheless, he was hired as a research fellow in 1965 and took the dr.philos.
- degree in 1968 with the thesis Aeneisstudien, a study of Virgil's Aeneid.
- In June 1963 he married teacher Ellen Beate Sinding-Larsen, and became a son-in-law of Henning Sinding-Larsen.
- Their son Henning Kraggerud is a notable violinist.At the University of Oslo, Kraggerud was promoted to lecturer in 1967 and professor already in 1969, succeeding an important teacher of his, Leiv Amundsen.
- He has translated works by Virgil, Aeschylus, Euripides and Boethius, and has also studied Horace, Tacitus, Henrik Ibsen and Norwegian medieval scholars.
- He edited the academic journal Symbolae Osloenses from 1972 to 1994, and retired in 2002.
- He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters since 1974, the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters since 1985 and Academia Europaea since 1989.
- He was awarded the Norwegian Academy Prize in memory of Thorleif Dahl in 1992.
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