Ottar Grønvik
Ottar Nicolai Grønvik ( born October 21, 1916 in Kjelsås, Oslo, † May 15, 2008 ) was a Norwegian germanistischer and skandinavistischer medievalist, linguist and Runologe.
Grønviks parents came from the west and east of the country, so it was suggested by early with him his interest in the culture and the cult rooms, language and history of Norway. He studied from 1935 to 1946 German and Scandinavian and Germanic linguistics at the University of Oslo. Due to the war, with a prison 1943 for conspiratorial acts of resistance against the German occupation and because of the escape aid Norwegian Jews to Sweden, he could take his master's exams until after the end of the war - he had already written in 1942, the master's thesis. From 1946 he was at the University of Oslo in Carl Marstrander as a research assistant and worked from 1959 as a lecturer at the Institute for German Studies until his retirement in 1986. He received his doctorate in 1981 with a runologischen work to the inscription and interpretation of the Runestone Tune.
According to John Ole Askedal Ottar Grønvik stood in the tradition of the great Norwegian Altgermanisten and Sophus Bugge Skandinavisten as Hjalmar Falk, Alf Torp and Carl just Marstrander alongside other representatives of the tray. The Norwegian tradition identified that all old Germanic languages are berherrscht and considered in conjunction with the rest of Indogermania. As a recognized expert in the runology he gained international reputation, reflecting his many contributions in national and international publications. Among others, he has contributed, for example, Klaus Düwel and Wilhelm Heizmann and other questions of the edition and in particular for the interpretation of the inscriptions of the Migration Period gold bracteates.
Ottar Grønvik received the Norwegian " Nansen Medal " for his scientific lines and merits. Since 1986 he was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences. He was married to Inger Grønvik, the couple has four children together.
Works
- Festskrift til Ottar Grønvik på 75 - årsdagen. Oslo, Universitetsforlaget 1991.