Laurie Hergenhan
Australian literary editor and scholar (1931–2019)
Laurence Thomas Hergenhan (15 March 1931 – 21 July 2019) was an Australian literary scholar.2
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Born 1931, died Jul 21, 2019.1
About
After completing his schooling at St Bernard's College, Katoomba, Hergenhan attended the University of Sydney, where he received his MA in 1953 and Diploma of Education in 1957. He completed his PhD at Birkbeck College in London before returning to Australia in 1960 to take up a lectureship at the University of Tasmania.
He was the founder and for many years the editor of Australian Literary Studies (1963) and the editor of the 1988 Penguin New Literary History of Australia and published on Xavier Herbert. He was a professor emeritus of The University of Queensland.
Hergenhan was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1994 for "service to Australian literary scholarship and to education". He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1993.
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Companies
- Australian Literary StudiesFounder9
Career
Occupation: literary scholar, literary critic.5
- Date not recordedWorked at University of Queensland3
- Date not recordedFounded Australian Literary Studies4
Personal life
Awards
- 1994Officer of the Order of Australia8
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