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Place of Birth: Horten, Vestfold, Norway
About Olaf Broch
- Olaf Broch (4 August 1867, Horten – 28 January 1961, Oslo) was a Norwegian linguist.
- He was born in Horten, and was a brother of children's writer Lagertha Broch, zoologist Hjalmar Broch, and social worker Nanna Broch.
- He was a professor of Slavic languages at the University of Oslo from 1900 to 1937.
- Among his works are Slawische Phonetik from 1911, Håndbok i elementær fonetikk from 1921, and Proletariatets diktatur from 1923.
- He translated works by Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky into Norwegian.
- He was decorated Commander of the Order of St.
- Olav in 1946.Broch was a pioneer in the field of Slavic studies in Norway and one of the first scholars to use modern methods to describe the phonetics of Slavic languages.
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Source: S. Blom (ed.): Den Kongelige Norske St. Olavs Orden, A. M. Hanches Forlag, 1934.
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Source: S. Blom (ed.): Den Kongelige Norske St. Olavs Orden, A. M. Hanches Forlag, 1934.
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