Gustav Indrebø (17 December 1889 in
Samnanger
Samnanger () is a municipality in the Midhordland region of Vestland county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Tysse. Other main villages in the municipality include Haga and Bjørkheim in Nordbygda. The ...
,
Hordaland
Hordaland () was a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland counties. Hordaland was the third largest county, after Akershus and Oslo, by population. The county government was the Hordaland County Munici ...
– 3 August 1942) was a Norwegian philologist.
His father was a teacher in
Årdal, Jølster. His brother
Ragnvald Indrebø
Ragnvald Andreas Indrebø (22 November 1891–26 June 1984) was a Norwegian Lutheran Bishop. He was born in Os. He was part of the movement to translate the Norwegian Bible into the Nynorsk written language during the 1930s. He edited the per ...
became bishop of the
diocese of Bjørgvin.
He graduated in 1917, took a doctorate (
dr.philol.) in 1925, and became professor in linguistics in 1930. He published over 200 scholarly papers. Linguistically he was an advocate of the
Aasen line of
new Norwegian, and he was the chairman of
Noregs Mållag
Noregs Mållag (literally "Language Organisation of Norway") is the main organisation for Norwegian Nynorsk (New Norwegian), one of the two official written standards of the Norwegian language. In the Norwegian language conflict, it advocates the ...
from 1930 to 1932.
Interested in
toponymy
Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of ''toponyms'' ( proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and types. Toponym is the general term for a proper name of ...
, Indrebø established ''Norsk Stadnamnarkiv'' in 1921 together with fellow professors
Magnus Olsen
Magnus Bernhard Olsen (28 November 1878 – 16 January 1963) was a Norwegian philologist who specialized in Old Norse studies.
Born and raised in Arendal, Olsen received his degrees in philology at Royal Frederick University in Kristiania, ...
and
Edvard Bull, Sr.
Edvard Bull (4 December 1881 – 26 August 1932) was a Norwegian historian and politician for the Labour Party. He took the doctorate in 1912 and became a professor at the University of Kristiania in 1917, and is known for writings on a broad r ...
References
Sogn og Fjordane county encyclopedia(Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation)
1889 births
1942 deaths
People from Samnanger
Noregs Mållag leaders
Norwegian philologists
Academic staff of the University of Bergen
Translators of the Bible into Norwegian
20th-century translators
20th-century philologists
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