Egil Pettersen
Egil Pettersen (4 March 1922 – 27 November 2010) was a Norwegian philologist.
He was born in Bergen and grew up in Fana. He took the cand.philol. degree in 1950, and was a lecturer at Stockholm University, teacher at Bergen Handelsgymnasium and Bergen Teachers' College.[1] He was hired at the University of Bergen in 1958, and was a professor of North Germanic languages from 1971 to 1989, being a scholar on medieval language. He was a member of the Norwegian Language Council from 1972 to 1991, and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Rødland, Kjartan (4 March 1997). "Det bergenske språkrør". Bergens Tidende (in Norwegian).
- ^ Bondevik, Jarle (8 December 2010). "Professor em. Egil Pettersen". Bergens Tidende (in Norwegian).
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