Elias Wessén

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Elias Wessén (15 April 1889 - 30 January 1981) was a prominent Swedish linguist and a professor of Scandinavian languages at Stockholm University (1928-1956). In 1947, he was honoured with one of the 18 seats at the Swedish Academy (which for instance awards the Nobel Prize in Literature).

His earliest work concerned morphological problems in the Germanic languages, Onomasiology and Norse mythology. He published parts of Sveriges runinskrifter, editions of medieval texts and together with Åke Holmbäck, a translation of the Swedish medieval province laws (with commentaries). He published several reference works, such as Svensk språkhistoria in three tomes, and a grammar for modern Swedish Vårt svenska språk. In 1944, he initiatied Nämnden för svensk språkvård (nowadays Språkrådet, the Swedish Language Council).^[1]

References

↑ Elias Wessén (in Norwegian) Store Norske Leksikon, retrieved 16 March, 2013

Cultural offices
Preceded by Tor Andræ	Swedish Academy, Seat No 16 1947-1981	Succeeded by Kjell Espmark

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 100221271 LCCN: n80118400 ISNI: 0000 0001 1850 7131 GND: 118806807 SELIBR: 232530

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Name	Wessen, Elias
Alternative names
Short description	Swedish linguist
Date of birth	1889
Place of birth
Date of death	1981
Place of death

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