Else M. Barth

Else Margarete Barth (3 August 1928, Strinda – 6 January 2015, Groningen) was a Norwegian philosopher.

She was a professor of analytic philosophy at the University of Groningen. She died here in January 2015.^[1] She was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.^[2] She was professor in analytic philosophy at the University of Groningen from 1977 till 1993. She made important contributions to empirical logic, study of argumentation and feminist philosophy.^[3]

In Norway she was best known^[4] for her study of Vidkun Quisling's idiosyncratic ideology, "Universism".^[5] The book on this topic was expanded and issued in English as A Nazi Interior: Quisling's Hidden Philosophy.

Selected publications

• The Logic of the Articles in Traditional Philosophy (1974)
• From Axiom to Dialogue (with Erik Krabbe, 1982)
• Problems, Functions and Semantic Roles (with Rob Wiche, 1986)
• Logic and Political Culture (ed. with E.C.W. Krabbe, 1992)
• Women Philosophers: A Bibliography of Books (1992)
• A Nazi Interior: Quisling's Hidden Philosophy (2003)
• Feministische mannen. Nederland in de schaduw van Scandinavië (Feminist Men. The Netherlands in the Shadow of Scandinavia, with Henk Misset, 2010)

References

1. Death announcement, Aftenposten 9 January 2015, p. 29
2. "Gruppe 3: Idéfag" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on 12 January 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
3. Else de Jonge: Else Margarete Barth in: Philosophinnen Lexikon, Reclam Leipzig, 1994
4. Nekrolog: Else Margarete Barth in: Aftenposten 18 January 2015.
5. Dahl, Hans Fredrik; Hans Fredrik Dahl (16 September 1996). "Ny nøkkel til gåten Quisling". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). p. 4.