Geir T. Zoëga

Geir Tómasson Zoëga (G. T. Zoëga), born 1857, died 1928, was an Icelandic linguist, known for writing several English-to-Icelandic and Icelandic-to-English dictionaries, as well as a dictionary on Old Icelandic, largely corresponding to Old Norse.

Career

Zoëga was the first master in the Grammar School of Reykjavík. From 1883 he worked as an English teacher at the Reykjavik Junior College (), later, in 1913, to his death, taking the position of rector at the school.

Throughout his life he released several English-to-Icelandic and Icelandic-to-English dictionaries. He died in 1928, before he could finish the third edition of his Icelandic-to-English dictionary. The editorship then fell to his son-in-law Þorsteinn Þorsteinsson (1880–1979), husband of Zoëga's daughter Guðrún Geirsdóttir Zoëga (1887–1955), and was released in 1932.

Personal life

Geir Zoëga had two daughters: Guðrún Geirsdóttir Zoëga (1887–1955) and Sigríður Geirsdóttir Zoëga (1889–1968).

Guðrún married Icelandic economist Þorsteinn Þorsteinsson (1880–1979), giving Geir five grandchildren between them. Sigríður never married but had a daughter with painter Jón Stefánsson whom she raised alone.

Bibliography

* 1896 –
* 1904 –
* 1910 –
* 1911 –
* 1922 –
* 1932 – – published post-morten, finished by: Þorsteinn Þorsteinsson

Further reading

* https://ensk.is/static/img/zoega_obit.pdf

References

External links

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1857 births
1928 deaths
Icelandic–English translators
English–Icelandic translators
People from Reykjavík
Icelandic scholars
Linguists from Iceland
19th-century linguists
19th-century Icelandic people