Ernst W. Selmer
Ernst Westerlund Selmer (23 April 1890 – 14 April 1971) was a Norwegian philologist and phonetician. A professor at the University of Oslo from 1937 to 1960, he was best known for his work on Low German and North Frisian language, North Frisian. Personal life He was born in Funbo, Sweden as a son of Ludvig Marius Selmer (1860–1931) and Nina Maria Mathilda Westerlund (1868–1954). He grew up in Oslo, Kristiania. He was a nephew of and Jens Selmer, and a second cousin of Fredrik Selmer. In March 1919 in Kristiania he married Ella Sejersted (1895–1968), a daughter of Colonel Nils Johannes Sejersted. He then became an uncle of Francis Sejersted, and the couple had several children. Knut Sejersted Selmer became a law professor, and married Elisabeth Schweigaard Selmer. Another son Ernst Sejersted Selmer became a mathematics professor. A third son, Nicolay Sejersted Selmer, born 1921, studied at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, but during the Second World War he first fou ...
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