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About Even Hovdhaugen
- Even Hovdhaugen (June 21, 1941 – October 16, 2018) was a Norwegian linguist.
- He became a professor of general linguistics at the University of Oslo in 1974.
- He was an expert in Polynesian languages. Hovdhaugen was born in Oslo, the son of the politician Einar Hovdhaugen.
- He received his master's degree in classical philology and comparative Indo-European linguistics in 1966.
- He carried out field research in Hungary, Turkey, the USSR, Mongolia, Peru, Chile, Samoa, Tokelau, and the Solomon Islands.
- He produced extensive research and published textbooks for both university and high school use.
- He authored grammars of Samoan and Tokelauan.In 1995 he was a guest professor at the University of Copenhagen, and from 1978 to 1980 he served as the first editor of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics.
- He held several key positions within university administration and research, including dean of the Faculty of Arts in Oslo.
- He headed the Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture from 1986 to 1991.
- In 1992 he received the Fridtjof Nansen Award of Excellence and the Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities (NAVF) Prize for Excellence. He resided in Bærum.
- He died in October 2018.
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