Elias Wessén
Elias Wessén (15 April 1889 – 30 January 1981) was a prominent Swedish linguist and a professor of Scandinavian languages at Stockholm University (1928–1956). In 1947, he was honoured with seat 16 in the Swedish Academy, which he held until his death.His earliest work concerned morphological problems in the Germanic languages, Onomasiology and Norse mythology. He published parts of ''Sveriges runinskrifter'', editions of medieval texts and together with Åke Holmbäck, a translation of the Swedish medieval province laws (with commentaries). He published several reference works, such as ''Svensk språkhistoria'' in three tomes, and a grammar for modern Swedish ''Vårt svenska språk''. In 1944, he initiated ''Nämnden för svensk språkvård'' (nowadays ''Språkrådet'', the Swedish Language Council). Provided by Wikipedia
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Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990