Sylfest Lomheim (born 11 March 1945 in

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) is a Norwegian

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

. He was the director of the

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from 2003 to 2010. He is also associate professor (''amanuensis'') in the

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at the

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. He was rector of its predecessor Agder Regional College from 1987 to 1992. Lomheim has written works on translation and language standardisation, and has worked in the

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since 1980, both in radio and TV. In 1997, under the

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, he was appointed state secretary in the

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References

Sylfest Lomheim
- Det Norske Samlaget
Sylfest Lomheim direktør ved nytt kompetansesenter for norsk språk
- Regjeringen.no 1945 births Living people Norwegian philologists Directors of government agencies of Norway Norwegian state secretaries Labour Party (Norway) politicians Rectors of universities and colleges in Norway Academic staff of the University of Agder People from Luster, Norway {{norway-linguist-stub