Magne Rommetveit (philologist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian lexicographer
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Place of Birth: Stord, Hordaland, Norway
About Magne Rommetveit (philologist)
- Magne Rommetveit (4 October 1918 – 6 January 2009) was a Norwegian lexicographer. He was born in Stord.
- He finished his secondary education in Voss in 1940 and took the cand.philol.
- degree in 1950.
- He worked as a lexicographer associated with the University of Oslo, and eventually became a docent and professor of Nynorsk philology from 1978 to 1988.
- He was involved in Nynorskordboka and Norsk ordbok, but his main work was the agricultural lexicon Norsk landbruksordbok.
- Commencing the work in 1955, it was published at Samlaget in 1978 with 80,000 entries.
- He later wrote the more popular book on Nynorsk synonyms, Med andre ord.
- Published in 1985 as a follow-up of the earlier PÃ¥ godt norsk, it was reissued several times.He was a co-founder of several Nynorsk institutions in Oslo: Kringkastingsringen which fought for Nynorsk use in the NRK, where he was general manager from 1955 to 1970; the weekly newspaper Dag og Tid in 1962 for which he coined the name; and the news agency Nynorsk Pressekontor in 1969.
- He became an honorary member of Noregs MÃ¥llag in 1998.
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