Aasen, Ivar Andreas
Born: Aug 05, 1813 AD
Died: 1896 AD, at 83 years of age.
Nationality: Norwegian
Categories: Lexicographer, Philologist
Died: 1896 AD, at 83 years of age.
Nationality: Norwegian
Categories: Lexicographer, Philologist
1813 - Born on the 5th of August in Orsta, Norway.
1826 - His father, a small peasant-farmer named Ivar Jonsson died.
1831 - He opened an elementary school in his native parish.
1833 - He entered the household of H. C. Thoresen, the husband of the eminent writer Magdalene Thoresen, in Heroy.
1841 - He had freed himself from all the burden of manual labour, and could occupy his thoughts with the dialect of his native district, Sunnmore.
1842 - He had begun to receive a stipend to enable him to give his entire attention to his philological investigations.
1843 - His first publication was a small collection of folk songs in the Sunnmore dialect.
1848 - His Grammar of the Norwegian Dialects was the result of much labour, and of journeys taken to every part of the country.
1850 - His famous Dictionary of the Norwegian Dialects appeared in its original form.
1855 - His composed poems and plays in the composite dialect to show how it should be used.
1873 - He holds perhaps an isolated place in literary history as the one man who has invented, or at least selected and constructed, a language which has pleased so many thousands of his countrymen.
1896 - He died on the 23rd of September in Christiania and was buried with public honours.
1826 - His father, a small peasant-farmer named Ivar Jonsson died.
1831 - He opened an elementary school in his native parish.
1833 - He entered the household of H. C. Thoresen, the husband of the eminent writer Magdalene Thoresen, in Heroy.
1841 - He had freed himself from all the burden of manual labour, and could occupy his thoughts with the dialect of his native district, Sunnmore.
1842 - He had begun to receive a stipend to enable him to give his entire attention to his philological investigations.
1843 - His first publication was a small collection of folk songs in the Sunnmore dialect.
1848 - His Grammar of the Norwegian Dialects was the result of much labour, and of journeys taken to every part of the country.
1850 - His famous Dictionary of the Norwegian Dialects appeared in its original form.
1855 - His composed poems and plays in the composite dialect to show how it should be used.
1873 - He holds perhaps an isolated place in literary history as the one man who has invented, or at least selected and constructed, a language which has pleased so many thousands of his countrymen.
1896 - He died on the 23rd of September in Christiania and was buried with public honours.
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Skrifter (Orion-bøkene ; 191) by Ivar Andreas Aasen (Unknown Binding - Sep 8, 1976) |
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Norsk Grammatik by Ivar Andreas Aasen (Unknown Binding - Jan 1, 1970) |
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Ivar Aasen i kvardagslaget by Anders Hovden (Unknown Binding - Sep 8, 1978) |
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Da tida var fullkomen: Ivar Aasen by Kjell Venas (Unknown Binding - Sep 8, 1996) |
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Ivar Aaasen i kvardagslaget by Anders Hovden (Unknown Binding - Sep 8, 1996) |
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Farewell the spirit craven: Ivar Aasen and national romanticism by Stephen J Walton (Unknown Binding - Sep 8, 1987) |
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