Laurie Hergenhan

{{Short description|Australian literary editor and scholar (1931–2019)}}

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| birth_date = 15 March 1931

| birth_place = Bega, New South Wales

| death_date = 21 July 2019 (aged 88)

| death_place = Australia

| nationality = Australian

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Laurence Thomas Hergenhan {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AO|FAHA}} (15 March 1931 – 21 July 2019)Wilde, Hooton & Andrews, The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, Oxford, Melbourne, 1994, p. 363.{{Cite web|website=University of Queensland, School of Communications and Arts|title=Emeritus Professor Laurence Hergenhan (1931-2019)|date=28 July 2019 |url=https://communication-arts.uq.edu.au/article/2019/07/emeritus-professor-laurence-hergenhan-1931-2019|access-date=29 October 2022}} was an Australian literary scholar.

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{{cite journal|last=Arnold|first=John|year=1993|title=Studying Australian Literature: A Guide to Some Recent Sources|journal=World Literature Today|volume=67|issue=3|pages=533–39|jstor=40149349|doi=10.2307/40149349}}{{cite journal|last=Gelder|first=Ken|year=1998|title=The Trouble with Australian Literature|journal=Australian Quarterly|volume=70|issue=6|pages=8–12|jstor=20637774|doi=10.2307/20637774}} and published on Xavier Herbert.{{cite book|last=Monahan|first=Sean|title=A Long and Winding Road: Xavier Herbert's Literary Journey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7_cx0znxZm8C&pg=PA299|accessdate=11 February 2013|year=2003|publisher=UWA|isbn=9781876268930|pages=299 n.3}} 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".{{Cite web|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/881215|title=Professor Laurence Thomas Hergenhan|last=|first=|date=|website=honours.pmc.gov.au|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-12-11}} He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1993.{{Cite web|last=Fotheringham|first=Richard|date=|title=Laurence Thomas ("Laurie") Hergenhan AO FAHA|url=https://www.humanities.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/AAH-Obit-HERGENHAN-L-2019.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-24|website=Australian Academy of the Humanities}}