{"id":11086,"date":"2022-12-11T17:27:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T17:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=11086"},"modified":"2022-12-11T17:27:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T17:27:06","slug":"king-harald-v-of-norway-receives-honorary-degree-from-augsburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2022\/12\/11\/king-harald-v-of-norway-receives-honorary-degree-from-augsburg\/","title":{"rendered":"King Harald V of Norway Receives Honorary Degree from Augsburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11087\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11087\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/12\/IMG_0036-e1670779502202.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11087 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/12\/IMG_0036-e1670779502202-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"King Harald V of Norway and President Paul Pribbenow smile side-by-side following the conferral of an honorary Augsburg degree on King Harald.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/12\/IMG_0036-e1670779502202-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/12\/IMG_0036-e1670779502202.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Her Majesty Queen Sonja of Norway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a December ceremony in Oslo, President Paul Pribbenow conferred upon King Harald V of Norway the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe are deeply grateful for Your Majesty\u2019s abiding support of Augsburg University and our sister Norwegian-American colleges and universities throughout the more than three decades of your reign,\u201d said Pribbenow in his ceremonial remarks. \u201cWe share both a common heritage and profound commitments to peacemaking and global citizenship.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">His Majesty King Harald V of Norway acceded to the throne January 17, 1991. The future king attended the Norwegian Cavalry Officers\u2019 Training School and went on to finish his military education at the Military Academy in 1959. Upon completion of his military service, he attended Balliol College at Oxford University from 1960 to 1962, studying social science, history, and economics. He holds the rank of general in Norway\u2019s army and air force, and of admiral in the navy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">King Harald and his wife, Queen Sonja, visited Augsburg in 2011. The recognition\u2014originally scheduled for 2020 but delayed by the pandemic\u2014is part of Augsburg\u2019s sesquicentennial anniversary celebration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a December ceremony in Oslo, President Paul Pribbenow conferred upon King Harald V of Norway the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa.\u00a0 \u201cWe are deeply grateful for Your Majesty\u2019s abiding support of Augsburg University and our sister Norwegian-American colleges and universities throughout the more than three decades of your reign,\u201d said Pribbenow &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3234],"tags":[3663,2143,2241],"class_list":["post-11086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donors","category-campus-events-and-happenings","tag-honorary-degree","tag-norway","tag-paul-pribbenow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11088,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11086\/revisions\/11088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}