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Knut Bergsland was born on 7 March, 1914, is a Norwegian linguist. Discover Knut Bergsland's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

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1883

He was born in Kristiania as a son of engineer Einar Christian Bergsland (1883–1945) and Henriette Louise Krogh Raabe (1883–1958).

He was the brother of sports administrator Einar Bergsland.

1914

Knut Bergsland (7 March 1914 – 9 July 1998) was a Norwegian linguist.

1932

He finished his secondary education in 1932, and enrolled at the University of Oslo.

1935

He also studied at the École des Hautes Études and the Institut Catholique from 1935 to 1936.

1940

He graduated with the cand.philol. degree in 1940, having specialized in Latin, but now concentrated more on the Sami languages.

1946

His first linguistic work was a grammar of the Southern Sámi language, released as Røros-lappisk grammatikk in 1946.

This work earned him the dr.philos. degree, and it is still the reference grammar of this language.

1947

Working as a professor at the University of Oslo from 1947 to 1981, he did groundbreaking research in Uralic (especially Sami) and Eskaleut languages.

In 1947 Bergsland was appointed professor in Finno-Ugric languages at the University of Oslo, succeeding Konrad Nielsen.

He continued his work on Sami languages, and also did important research in Eskaleut languages, firstly a historical grammar of Kalaallisut (or Western Greenlandic), and then a dictionary and reference grammar of Aleut.

1948

His interest in these languages arose during two stays as a visiting scholar; respectively at the University of Copenhagen in 1948 and the Indiana University at Bloomington in 1949–1950.

1981

He continued studying Aleut after retiring as a professor in 1981.

1987

Bergsland's professorship was vacant until 1987, when Ole Henrik Magga replaced him.

1994

Bergsland's final works were Aleut dictionary – Unangam tunudgusii (1994), Aleut Grammar (1997) and Ancient Aleut Personal Names (1998).

1998

He died in July 1998.

Bergsland held an honorary degree at the University of Helsinki.