Fridrik Thordarson (1928 – 2 October 2005) was an Icelandic linguist. Thordarson was born in

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, and studied

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in Oslo. In 1963 he took exams with Latin as his major and Greek and Indian philology as his minors. From 1965 onwards he taught classical philology as a lecturer. He became professor in 1994. Thordarson worked for most of his life in Norway. Apart from Classical languages, he became an expert in

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such as Georgian and

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. He also published a grammar of Ossetic. Thordarson was a regular contributor and a consulting editor to ''

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''.

Sources

University of Frankfurt

Bibliography

* Ossetic Grammatical Studies. Wien: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2009.
An article on Ossetic grammar
by Fridrik Thordarson * 1928 births 2005 deaths

Fridrik Thordarson Fridrik Thordarson (1928 – 2 October 2005) was an Icelanders, Icelandic linguist. Thordarson was born in Iceland, and studied Classical philology in Oslo. In 1963 he took exams with Latin as his major and Greek and Indian philology as his mi ...

Academic staff of the University of Oslo

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