Arnulv Sudmann (19 June 1912 – 30 April 1981) was a Norwegian journalist, magazine editor,

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and associate professor. He was a proponent for the use of the

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Biography

Sudmann was born at Voss in

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, Norway. He took artium in 1931, and later a magister degree in psychology at the

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in 1942. He was a journalist at ''Norsk Tidend'' from 1935 to 1936 and edited the magazine ''

Nynorsk Vekeblad Hans Aarnes (6 May 1886 – 25 October 1960) was a Norwegian entrepreneur, journalist, newspaper editor, magazine editor, publisher and proponent for the Nynorsk language. Early and personal life Aarnes was born in Vatne, Møre og Romsdal as t ...

'' from 1941 to 1943. He was the principal editor of the Nynorsk encyclopedia ''

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''. It was the largest

Nynorsk Nynorsk () () is one of the two written standards of the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. From 12 May 1885, it became the state-sanctioned version of Ivar Aasen's standard Norwegian language ( no, Landsmål) parallel to the Dano-Nor ...

encyclopedia ever published. The work was published in ten volumes between 1948–64. He was an associate professor at the high school Gudbrandsdal landsgymnas from 1960 to 1961, then secretary of Nynorsk in the Norwegian Language Board from 1961 to 1972 and office manager for Nynorsk at the same place from 1972 to 1980. Sudmann was appointed a research fellow in 1980, and thus belongs to the group of fellows who received government grants as they retire from public service. He married Solveig Gjellesvik in 1946. He died at Oslo in 1981.

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1912 births 1981 deaths People from Voss University of Oslo alumni Norwegian magazine editors Norwegian encyclopedists Nynorsk 20th-century Norwegian writers 20th-century Norwegian journalists {{Norway-journalist-stub