Einar Haugen

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Einar Haugen
Born
Einar Ingvald Haugen

(1906-04-19)April 19, 1906
Sioux City, Iowa, U.S.
DiedJune 20, 1994(1994-06-20) (aged 88)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Spouse
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ph.D.
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
Institutions

Einar Ingvald Haugen (/ˈhaʊɡən/; April 19, 1906 – June 20, 1994) was an American linguist, writer, and professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison and Harvard University. [1]

Biography

Haugen was born in

Ph.D. in 1931.[2]

In 1931 Haugen joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he stayed until 1962. He was made Victor S. Thomas Professor of Scandinavian and Linguistics at Harvard University in 1964, and stayed here until his retirement in 1975. Haugen served as president of the Linguistic Society of America, the American Dialect Society, and the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. Haugen was also a member of the Board of Editors of the Norwegian-American Historical Association. [3]

In 1972 he was awarded an honorary degree, doctor philos. honoris causa, at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, later part of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.[4]

Haugen is credited with having pioneered American sociolinguistics[5] and being a leading scholar within the field of Norwegian-American studies, [6]

ISBN 0-299-03874-2).[8][9]

His last book was a biography of the Norwegian virtuoso violinist Ole Bull co-written with his daughter, Camilla Cai.[9][10]

Memorials

The Einar and Eva Lund Haugen Memorial Scholarship has been established by the Norwegian-American Historical Association to honor Einar Haugen and his wife Eva Lund Haugen (1907–1996). Additionally, the Boston Chapter of the American-Scandinavian Foundation voted to establish the Einar and Eva Haugen Prize. The prize is awarded annually to an undergraduate or graduate student for excellence in the field of Scandinavian languages and literature at Harvard University.[11] [12]

Selected bibliography

  • Voyages to Vinland: The First American Saga (1942)
  • Spoken Norwegian (1946)
  • The Norwegian Language in America: A Study in Bilingual Behavior (1953)
  • Bilingualism in the Americas (1956)
  • The Semantics of Icelandic Orientation (1957)
  • Language Conflict and Language Planning: The Case of Modern Norwegian (1966)
  • Studies by Einar Haugen: Presented on the Occasion of his 65th birthday ( 1971)
  • The Ecology of Language: Language Science and National Development (1972)
  • Norwegian-English Dictionary: A Pronouncing and Translating Dictionary of Modern Norwegian (1974)
  • The Scandinavian Languages: An Introduction to Their History (1976)
  • Bibliography of Scandinavian Languages and Linguistics 1900-70 (1974)
  • Scandinavian Language Structures (1982)
  • Blessings of Babel: Bilingualism and Language Planning (1987)
  • Immigrant Idealist: A Literary Biography of Waldemar Ager, Norwegian American (1989)
  • Ole Bull: Norway's Romantic Musician and Cosmopolitan Patriot (1993)

See also

References

  1. ^ Øyvind T. Gulliksen. "Einar Haugen". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved February 1, 2020.
  2. ^ Børge Nordbø. "George T. Flom". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved February 1, 2020.
  3. ^ Obituary Haugen, Einar Ingvald, 1906-1994 Lloyd Hustvedt. Swedish-American Historical Quarterly (North Park University April 1995, v. 46, no. 2, pages 141-142
  4. ^ "Honorary doctors at NTNU". Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
  5. doi:10.1080/07256868.1994.9963407
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  6. ISBN 9780521479127
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  7. ISBN 9789027268198
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  8. ^ Einar Haugen, leading authority on Norwegian culture in US (The Boston Globe. Boston, MA. June 25, 1994)
  9. ^ a b "Memorial minute from Harvard University". Archived from the original on 2006-09-05. Retrieved 2005-03-18.
  10. ISBN 978-0-299-13250-7
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  11. ^ "The Einar and Eva Lund Haugen Memorial Scholarship". Society for the Advancementof Scandinavian Study. Retrieved February 1, 2020.
  12. ^ Einar and Eva Haugen Prize The President and Fellows of Harvard College

Additional reading

  • Lovoll, Odd S. (1999) The History of the Norwegian-American People (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press)
  • Gulliksen, Øyvind Tveitereid (2004) Twofold Identities: Norwegian-American Contributions to Midwestern Literature (New York City: Peter Lang Publishing Co.)
    ISBN 9780820462301

External links
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