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Aasen, a self-taught linguistic scholar and philologist, documented a written grammar and dictionary for the spoken Norwegian folk language, which became Nynorsk ( New Norwegian ) – the " speech of the country " as opposed to the official language largely imported from Denmark.
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Aasen and philologist
Ivar Andreas Aasen ( 5 August 1813 – 23 September 1896 ) was a Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright and poet.
Aasen and written
The standard language was created by Ivar Aasen during the mid-19th century, to provide a Norwegian alternative to the Danish language which was commonly written in Norway at the time.
Aasen and grammar
In 1848 and 1850 he published the first Norwegian grammar and dictionary, respectively, which described a standard Aasen called Landsmål.
* Ivar Aasen, a linguist who conducted analyses of vocabulary, idioms, and grammar mostly from Western Norway and the mountainous valleys on the assumption that the original seeds of a Norwegian language were to be found there.
It can be said that Northern Sami was better described than Norwegian was before Ivar Aasen published his grammar on Norwegian.
Aasen and dictionary
Aasen continued to enlarge and improve his grammars and his dictionary.
Aasen and for
Aasen's famous Dictionary of the Norwegian Dialects appeared in its original form in 1850, and from this publication dates all the wide cultivation of the popular language in Norwegian, since Aasen really did no less than construct, out of the different materials at his disposal, a popular language or definite folke-maal ( people's language ) for Norway.
Aasen holds perhaps an isolated place in literary history as the one man who has invented, or at least selected and constructed, a language which has pleased so many thousands of his countrymen that they have accepted it for their schools, their sermons and their songs.
The central point for Aasen therefore became to find and show the structural dependencies between the dialects.
Through such a systematic approach, one could arrive at a uniting expression for all Norwegian dialects, what Aasen called the fundamental dialect, and Einar Haugen has called Proto-Norwegian.
A fundamental idea for Aasen was that the fundamental dialect should be Modern Norwegian, not Old Norse.
The club has also spawned professionals such as Patrick Thoresen and Mats Zuccarello Aasen, however they did not play at senior level for the club.
Aasen was born in Stadsbygd, Rissa, Norway, and went on to graduate from ( School for Non-Commissioned Officers ) in 1903.
During World War I Aasen was given the task of producing hand grenades for the French army.
He welcomed Ivar Aasen, and was a valuable source for preserving old traditional music and lore in his area.
Aasen and Norwegian
With certain modifications, the most important of which were introduced later by Aasen himself, but also through a latter policy aiming to merge this Norwegian language with Dano-Norwegian, this language has become Nynorsk (" New Norwegian "), the second of Norway's two official languages ( the other being Bokmål, the Dano-Norwegian descendant of the Danish language used in Norway at Aasen's time ).
The first systematic study of the Norwegian language was done by Ivar Aasen in the mid 19th century.
Ivar Aasen-sambandet ( The Ivar Aasen Union ) is an umbrella organization of associations and individuals promoting the use of the Høgnorsk variant of the Norwegian language.
Nils Waltersen Aasen ( 30 March 1878 – December 1925 ) was a Norwegian arms inventor ; he is credited with having created the modern hand grenade and land mine just prior to World War I.
Ivar Aasen treated the dative case in detail in his work, Norsk Grammatik ( 1848 ), and use of Norwegian dative as a living grammatical case can be found in a few of the earliest Landsmål texts.
The Norwegian translation from the Icelandic by Ivar Aasen acted precisely on this saga.
He used it analogously to High German ( Hochdeutsch ), pointing out that Ivar Aasen, the creator of Nynorsk orthography, had especially valued the dialects of the mountainous areas of middle and western Norway, as opposed to the dialects of the lowlands of eastern Norway, which Hannaas called flatnorsk ( Flat Norwegian, like Plattdeutsch ).
Aasen and language
This and the quality of his writings, led him to the friendship with several other combatants of the new language, including such well-known authors as Ivar Aasen, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Arne Garborg, Jonas Lie, and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.
Aasen and from
Aasen composed poems and plays in the composite dialect to show how it should be used ; one of these dramas, The Heir ( 1855 ), was frequently acted, and may be considered as the pioneer of all the abundant dialect-literature of the last half-century of the 1800s, from Vinje to Garborg.
* Christian Sinding's musical setting of three Aasen poems Score from Sibley Music Library Digital Scores collections
Aasen and .
Aasen was born at Åsen in Ørsta ( then Ørsten ), in the district of Sunnmøre, on the west coast of Norway.
The genius of Ivar Aasen ( 1813 — 1898 ) was at the heart of this effort.
His father died when he was 16, but fellow Ørsta native Ivar Aasen helped him get an education: first the teachers ' training college in Volda, then examen artium in Oslo.
Just prior to World War I Aasen developed a powerful anti-personnel mine, " the automatic soldier ," meant as a weapon of deterrence.
self-taught and linguistic
However, he remains a noteworthy linguistic scholar, largely self-taught.
self-taught and scholar
He appears to have been a self-taught scholar, amassing a large library by the end of his life.
A self-taught scholar and a polyglot, he had a wide range of interests in varied fields including physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, mineralogy, philosophy, arts, literature and music.
She never attended college but became a self-taught scholar in areas that interested her, especially Shropshire and Wales.
Daumal was self-taught in the Sanskrit language and translated some of the Tripitaka Buddhist canon into the French language, as well as translating the literature of the Japanese Zen scholar D. T.
( English: Joan Agnes of the Cross ) ( 12 November 1651 – 17 April 1695 ), was a self-taught scholar and poet of the Baroque school, and nun of New Spain.
* John Henrik Clarke ( 1915 – 1998 ), self-taught scholar who became an authority on African history and an advocate for Black Studies
Despite his lack of a formal university education, he was a self-taught scholar, who read extensively in the literatures of science, engineering and the liberal arts.
Mariette gave him two newly discovered hieroglyphic texts of considerable difficulty to study, and the young self-taught scholar produced translations of them in less than a fortnight, a great feat in those days when Egyptology was still almost in its infancy.
A self-taught music scholar, he brings an exhaustive knowledge to his radio shows, working without notes during his aircast which regularly beats FM country stations in Nashville in the Arbitron ratings.
self-taught and written
Al-Risalah al-Kamiliyyah fil Siera al-Nabawiyyah ( The Treatise of Kamil on the Prophet's Biography ), known in English as Theologus Autodidactus ( which is a phonetic transliteration of the Greek name Θεολόγος Αυτοδίδακτος, meaning self-taught theologian ), written by the Arabian polymath Ibn al-Nafis ( 1213 – 1288 ), is the earliest known science fiction novel.
It was written and published by Francis Moore, a self-taught physician and astrologer who served at the court of Charles II.
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