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Elias Wessén (15 April 1889 – 30 January 1981) was a prominent Swedish linguist and a professor of Scandinavian languages at Stockholm University (1928–1956). In 1947, he was honoured with one of the 18 seats at the Swedish Academy (which for instance awards the Nobel Prize in Literature).

His earliest work concerned morphological problems in the Germanic languages, Onomasiology and Norse mythology. He published parts of Sveriges runinskrifter, editions of medieval texts and together with Åke Holmbäck, a translation of the Swedish medieval province laws (with commentaries). He published several reference works, such as Svensk språkhistoria in three tomes, and a grammar for modern Swedish Vårt svenska språk. In 1944, he initiated Nämnden för svensk språkvård (nowadays Språkrådet, the Swedish Language Council).[1]

References

Further reading

• Wessén, Elias G A in Vem är det 1977, pp. 1079–1080

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Preceded by Tor Andræ	Swedish Academy, Seat No 16 1947–1981	Succeeded by Kjell Espmark

На других языках

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[de] Elias Wessén

Elias Gustaf Adolf Wessén (* 15. April 1889 in Linderås, Jönköpings län; † 30. Januar 1981 in Stockholm) war ein schwedischer Sprachforscher und von 1928 bis 1956 Professor für nordgermanische Sprachen an der Universität Stockholm.

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- [en] Elias Wessén

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[ru] Вессен, Элиас

Элиас Вессен (швед. Elias Wessén; 15 апреля 1889 (1889-04-15), местечко Линдерос в лене Йёнчёпинг — 30 января 1981, Стокгольм) — шведский филолог-германист, профессор скандинавских языков в университете Стокгольма, член Шведской академии в 1947-1981 гг., член Нобелевского комитета по литературе, инициатор создания и член Шведского языкового совета.

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