Matias Skard (28 May 1846 – 28 July 1927) was a Norwegian philologist, educator, psalmist, essayist and translator.
Biography
Matias Olsen Skard was born on a family farm in
Øyer Municipality
Øyer is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Tin ...
in
Gudbrandsdal
Gudbrandsdalen (; ) is a valley and traditional district in the Norwegian county of Innlandet (formerly Oppland). The valley is oriented in a north-westerly direction from Lillehammer and the lake of Mjøsa, extending toward the Romsdalen vall ...
, Norway. He had planned to study theology but rather began his career as a teacher. He taught at the Latin School in
Lillehammer
Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the munici ...
from 1864 to 1868 and at Folk High Schools in
Nordre Trondheim county from 1877 to 1881. He chaired the Vonheim Folk High School founded by
Christopher Bruun
Christopher Arndt Bruun (23 September 1839 – 17 July 1920) was a Norwegian priest and educator.
Biography
He was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was a son of jurist Johan Peter Bruun (1810–1843) and Line Stenersen (1816–1901). Af ...
in
Østre Gausdal Municipality from 1884 to 1890. From 1886 to 1890, he was also co-editor of the newspaper ''
Framgang''. He taught at the Teacher's College in
Levanger
Levanger may refer to:
Places
* Levanger Municipality, a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway
* Levanger (town), a town within Levanger Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway
* Levanger landsogn, a former municipality (1856–1962) in Trø ...
from 1892 to 1901. In 1901, he was appointed school director in
Kristiansand
Kristiansand is a city and Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality is the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 116,000 as of January 2020, following th ...
, a position he retained until he retired in 1921.
During the 1880s, Skard was in a task group charged with translating the
New Testament
The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus, as well as events relating to Christianity in the 1st century, first-century Christianit ...
into the
Norwegian language
Norwegian ( ) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken mainly in Norway, where it is an official language. Along with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a dialect continuum of more or less mutually intelli ...
. His brief
Nynorsk
Nynorsk (; ) is one of the two official written standards of the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. From 12 May 1885, it became the state-sanctioned version of Ivar Aasen's standard Norwegian language (''Landsmål''), parallel to the Da ...
dictionary ''Nynorsk ordbok for rettskriving og literaturlesnad'', which was published by
Aschehoug
H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), commonly known as Aschehoug,() is one of the largest independent publishing companies in Norway, founded in 1872. Headquartered in Oslo, the publishing house has 480 employees. The Aschehoug group also comprises o ...
in 1912, proved popular and has been a basis for several later editions.
Personal life
Matias Skard was married three times. He was the father of horticulturists
Olav Skard and
Torfinn Skard, professor
Sigmund Skard
Sigmund Skard (31 July 1903 – 26 May 1995) was a Norwegian poet, essayist and professor of American literature.
Biography
Skard was born in Kristiansand, Norway. He was a son of educators Matias Skard (1846–1927) and Gyda Christensen (1868†...
, classical philologist
Eiliv Skard, and Bishop
Bjarne Skard.
''Skard'' (Store norske leksikon)
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See also
*Norsk Ordbok (Nynorsk)
''Norsk Ordbok'' (''NO'') is a comprehensive dictionary of written New Norwegian (Nynorsk) and the Norwegian dialects, in twelve volumes. The work was completed in 2012. It was edited at the University of Oslo, published by the Norwegian publish ...
References
External links
Nynorsk ordbok rettskriving og literaturlesnad (1912)''Matias Skard : en pedagog i sin tid''
1846 births
1927 deaths
People from Øyer
Norwegian educators
Norwegian newspaper editors
Translators of the Bible into Norwegian
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