Thorsten Andersson
Thorsten Andersson | |
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Born | Ödeshög Municipality, Sweden | 23 February 1929
Died | 22 April 2018 Uppsala, Sweden | (aged 89)
Nationality | Swedish |
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Discipline | Toponymy |
Institutions |
Karl Thorsten Gunnar Andersson (29 February 1923 - 4 April 2018) was a Swedish toponymist, and a former Professor of Linguistics at Uppsala University.
Biography[]
Karl Thorsten Gunnar Andersson was born in Ödeshög Municipality, Sweden on 29 February 1923. He was an associate professor of Swedish at the University of Münster from 1957 to 1960. Andersson received his PhD from Uppsala University in 1965, where he subsequently became a docent in Nordic languages. From 1971 to 1994, Andersson was Professor of Linguistics at Uppsala University.[1][2]
Andersson specialized in toponymy. He was the publisher of Namn och bygd and co-publisher of Studia Anthroponymica Scandinavica. He was the author of a large number of books and articles on Swedish place names and personal names. Andersson was a member of the Royal Society of the Humanities at Uppsala, the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. He died on 4 April 2018.[1][2]
Selected works[]
- Svenska häradsnamn, 1965
- Namn i Norden och det forna Europa, 1989
References[]
- ^ a b Hengst, Karlheinz (April 4, 2018). "Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Thorsten Andersson verstorben" (in German). Deutsche Gesellschaft für Namenforschung. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
- ^ a b "Thorsten Andersson" (in Swedish). Upsala Nya Tidning. May 20, 2018.
- 1923 births
- 2018 deaths
- Germanic studies scholars
- Linguists from Sweden
- Linguists of Germanic languages
- Members of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- People from Ödeshög Municipality
- Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy
- Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
- Toponymists
- University of Münster faculty
- Uppsala University faculty
- Swedish academic biography stubs