Ivar Aasen
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Ivar Andreas Aasen (August 5, 1813 – September 23, 1896), a Norwegian author, philologist and lexicographer. A buste plased in the gardens enclosed by the buildings for the Faculty of Arts in Oslo, Norweay.
Waymark Code: WM14ZQ
Location: Oslo, Norway
Date Posted: 01/16/2007
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Ivar Aasen used much of his life as grown up to study norwegian dialects and collecting samples of theese. Aasen's famous Dictionary of the Norwegian Dialects appeared in its original form in 1850, and from this publication dates all the wide cultivation of the popular language in Norwegian, since Aasen really did no less than construct, out of the different materials at his disposal, a popular language or definite folke-maal (people's language) for Norway.
Aasen wrote his poems and plays in dialect.
Carefully selecting words he always finds striking and wellsounding
expressions for his human values. In a solid and harmonic form his poetry mirrors his youth. Society also git theirs in his writings.
He was well aware of the two cultures in the country, the rural original farming one and the new city and administrative culture.
To none surprise he stood up for the coutry side culture, where he had grown up and worked all his life.