Jørgen Haave (born 1971) is a Norwegian literary scholar and the senior curator and director of the Henrik Ibsen Museum in Skien, a part of Telemark Museum. He is especially known for his Ibsen biography, The Ibsen Family (Familien Ibsen) (2017), and is one of the foremost contemporary Ibsen scholars; alongside Jon Nygaard he has been central in a scholarly reassessment of older myths pertaining to Ibsen's background and childhood, and their influence upon his work.
Haave published a biography of Peter Wessel Zapffe in 1999 and graduated in history of literature in 2003 with a thesis on Ibsen's Ghosts. He was appointed as director of Henrik Ibsen Museum in 2008."– Ibsen har bare blitt en logo", Telemarksavisa, 9 May 2008 He was awarded the second prize of the Hjernekraft prize of the Norwegian Association of Researchers in 2017 for his work on Ibsen. In 2019 he became a senior curator.
Selected works Kulturelt nødverge: Zapffes etterlatte skrifter, Pax forlag, 1997 Naken under kosmos, Pax forlag, 1999 Familien Ibsen, Museumsforlaget, 2017
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