Andreas Bjørkum, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian philologist
Date of Birth: 30-Mar-1932
Place of Birth: Årdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
Date of Death: 01-Apr-2014
Profession: philologist
Nationality: Norway, Sweden
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Andreas Bjørkum
- Andreas Aarskog Bjørkum (30 March 1932 – 1 April 2014) was a Norwegian philologist who specialized in dialectology. He was born in Årdal and grew up in Nattvik.
- He finished his secondary education at Eidsvoll in 1953 and graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.philol.
- degree in 1962.
- He worked for the Norsk Ordbok project, then as a research assistant at the Norwegian Dialect Archive (now a section at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo).
- After a research fellowship from 1968 to 1972, he issued his doctoral thesis Generasjonsskilnad i indresognsmål in 1974.He was a docent at the University of Oslo from 1973, then professor from 1984 to his retirement in 2002.
- Dialects on which he has published major academic works include Inner Sogn, Gudbrandsdalen, Oppdal and Suldal.
- He wrote extensively on the dialect use in well-known Norwegian authorships, such as Olav H.
- Hauge in the book Målmeistaren frå Ulvik (1998).
- He followed with similar books about Tarjei Vesaas (2010), Sjur Bygd (2011) and Johannes Heggland (2012).
- In 2004 he issued the local history Soga om Viki og Vikadalen.
- Garden, grendi, ætti.In 1992 he became a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
- A Festschrift was issued to his 70th birthday.
- He was a member of the professional committee of the Norwegian Language Council from 1980 to 1992.
- He was active in Norsk Måldyrkingslag, Friends of Det Norske Teatret and Noregs Ungdomslag, the latter as local leader in the Oslo district.
- He was known for penning his 230 articles in handwriting, not using a computer.He was married to Ragna Myrstad from 1968 to her death in 1996.
- Their son Per Sæmund Bjørkum is a violinist in the Oslo Philharmonic.
- He resided in Hosle, later Hvalstad.
- He died in April 2014.
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