Harald Trygve Heltveit (8 December 1913 – 21 August 1985) was a Norwegian philologist. He was born in

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as a son of teacher Olav Heltveit (1873–1959) and Petra Sættevik (1878–1947). In 1943 he married Erna Røisum. He became a student in 1936 and graduated with the cand.philol. degree from the

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in 1942. He was hired as a school teacher at Vestheim School in 1943 and Sinsen School in 1952, but received a

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ship in 1947 and took the dr.philos. degree in 1954 with the thesis ''Studies in English Demonstrative Pronouns''. He was hired as a lecturer in 1954, was promoted to

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in 1962 and professor in 1970. His field was

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. He retired in 1981 and died in 1985 and was buried at

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1913 births 1985 deaths People from Balestrand Norwegian educators Norwegian philologists University of Oslo alumni Academic staff of the University of Oslo Burials at Vestre gravlund 20th-century philologists {{Norway-academic-bio-stub