Ragnvald Iversen
| Ragnvald Iversen | |
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| Born |
January 18, 1882 Tromsø |
| Died | August 21, 1960 (aged 78) Trondheim |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Fields | North Germanic linguistics |
| Institutions | Norwegian College of Teaching |
| Education | Kongsbakken Upper Secondary School |
| Thesis | Bokmål og talemål i Norge 1560–1630 (1921) |
| Notable awards | His Majesty the King's Gold Medal, Fridtjof Nansen Prize for Outstanding Research, Gunnerus Medal |
| Spouse | Clara Grace Brodersen |
| Children | 2 |
Ragnvald Iversen (January 18, 1882 – August 21, 1960) was a Norwegian educator and professor of North Germanic linguistics.
Iversen was born in Tromsø. After passing his examen artium in 1899 at the Kongsbakken Upper Secondary School, he moved to Oslo, where he worked as a teacher (among other places, at Brandbu Middle School from 1907 to 1909) while studying. He received his university degree in 1910 with a thesis titled Senjen-maalet. Lydverket i hoveddrag (The Senja Dialect: Phonology and Main Features, published 1913), after which he taught in Arendal from 1910 to 1913. In 1913 he became a teacher at Hønefoss Middle School, where he met his first wife Clara Brodersen, who had worked there as a teacher since 1911. Iversen worked at Hønefoss until 1920, with a stay abroad in Copenhagen from 1913 to 1914, and he won His Majesty the King's Gold Medal in 1917 for his thesis Syntaksen i Tromsø bymål (Syntax of the Tromsø Urban Dialect). In 1918 he went on partial leave to pursue a university scholarship that enabled him received his PhD in 1921 with the dissertation Bokmål og talemål i Norge 1560–1630 (Standard Language and Dialects in Norway from 1560 to 1630).
In 1922 he became a professor at the newly established Norwegian College of Teaching in Trondheim (where he was appointed chancellor in 1936), and the same year he was elected to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He became president of Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters in 1932. Together with Halvdan Koht (also from Tromsø), Johan Bojer, Gustav Natvig-Pedersen, Arne Bergsgård, and Martin Birkeland, in 1934 Iversen was appointed to a committee whose recommendations led to the 1938 orthographic reform and the common language variety known as Samnorsk.
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