Kjell Venås (30 November 1927 – 7 March 2018) was a Norwegian philologist. He was born in

Hemsedal Hemsedal is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Buskerud Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway, traditional region of Hallingdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Trøym ...

, and took his dr.philos. degree in 1967. He spent most of his career at the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo (; ) is a public university, public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation#Europe, oldest university in Norway. Originally named the Royal Frederick Univ ...

; as a lecturer from 1970 to 1971 and professor from 1971 to 1997. Specializing in research about the

Nynorsk Nynorsk (; ) is one of the two official written standards of the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. From 12 May 1885, it became the state-sanctioned version of Ivar Aasen's standard Norwegian language (''Landsmål''), parallel to the Da ...

language form, Venås has also been involved in the

Norwegian Language Council The Language Council of Norway (, ) is the administrative body of the Norwegian state on language issues. It regulates the two written forms of the Norwegian language: Bokmål and Nynorsk. It was established in 2005 and replaced the Norwegian Lan ...

. He was a member of the

Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Its purpose is to support the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway. History The Royal Frederick University in Christiania was establis ...

. He died in March 2018.Death announcement, ''Aftenposten'' 15 March 2018 p. 45

Selected bibliography

This is a list of his most notable works: *''Hallingmålet'' (1977) *''Mål og miljø'' (1982) *''For Noreg og Ivar Aasen. Gustav Indrebø i arbeid og strid'' (1984) *''Norsk grammatikk. Nynorsk'' (1990) *''I Aasens fotefar.

Marius Hægstad Kristoffer Marius Hægstad (15 July 1850 – 21 November 1927) was a Norwegian educator, linguist and politician for the Liberal Party. A proponent for landsmål, he was the first chairman of Norigs Maallag. Personal life Hægstad was born in ...

'' (1992) *''Då tida var fullkomen.

Ivar Aasen Ivar Andreas Aasen (; 5 August 1813 – 23 September 1896) was a Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet. He is best known for having assembled one of the two official written versions of the Norwegian language, Nynorsk, from ...

'' (1996)

References

1927 births 2018 deaths People from Hemsedal Norwegian philologists Academic staff of the University of Oslo Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Nynorsk {{Norway-writer-stub