Abstract
Hjalmar Torp is one of the most important Norwegian scholars working on Classical and Byzantine material. Among many other honours and signs of regard, he is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oslo and Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, who awarded him their prestigious Fridtjof Nansen medal in 1999. He has also been honoured with the Silver Medal of Hagios Demetrios from the Holy Diocese of Thessaloniki, and is a Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
Highlights
Hjalmar Torp is one of the most important Norwegian scholars working on Classical and Byzantine material
It is a problematic building with a contested history. It seems likely it was originally part of a Late Antique palace complex. It was converted into a church and at some point, mosaics were put into the building
Torp has very clear ideas and arguments about the date of both. His view is that the archaeological evidence – which he fairmindedly sees as circumstantial – suggests that the building itself was begun in the very early fourth century and completed and decorated with mosaics in the reign of Theodosios I, an emperor who spent periods of time in Thessaloniki between 379-80 and 387-88, and who was responsible for laws making Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire
Summary
Hjalmar Torp is one of the most important Norwegian scholars working on Classical and Byzantine material. In 1953-1954, Torp spent time in Thessaloniki studying the mosaics of the Rotunda, and he has been working on them, one way or another, ever since.
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