Elias Wessén

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).

Elias Wessén

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

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Preceded by Tor Andræ	Swedish Academy, Seat No 16 1947–1981	Succeeded by Kjell Espmark

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[1] Elias Wessén (in Norwegian) Store Norske Leksikon, retrieved 16 March 2013