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, Hordaland, Tysse. Other main villages in the municipality include Haga, Hordaland, Haga an ...

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– 3 August 1942) was a Norwegian philologist. His father was a teacher in Årdal, Jølster. His brother Ragnvald Indrebø became bishop of the

diocese of Bjørgvin The Diocese of Bjørgvin () is one of the 11 dioceses that make up the Church of Norway. It includes all of the churches located in the county of Vestland in Western Norway, and those outside of Norway in the Seamen's Church. The cathedral cit ...

. 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 Norwegian ( ) is a North Germanic language from th ...

from 1930 to 1932. Interested in

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, 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.

References

Sogn og Fjordane county encyclopedia
(Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) 1889 births 1942 deaths People from Samnanger Noregs Mållag leaders Academic staff of the University of Bergen Translators of the Bible into Norwegian 20th-century Norwegian translators 20th-century Norwegian philologists {{Norway-writer-stub