Misplaced Pages

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Norwegian. (July 2019) Click for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Norwegian article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Misplaced Pages. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Norwegian Misplaced Pages article at ]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|no|Georg Morgenstierne}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Misplaced Pages:Translation.

Georg Morgenstierne
Born	Georg Valentin von Munthe af Morgenstierne 2 January 1892 (1892-01-02) Oslo, Norway
Died	3 March 1978 (1978-03-04) (aged 86) Oslo, Norway
Era	20th century
Region	Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Iran
School	Descriptive linguistics
Main interests	Indo-Iranian languages

Georg Valentin von Munthe af Morgenstierne (2 January 1892 – 3 March 1978) was a Norwegian professor of linguistics with the University of Oslo (UiO). He specialized in Indo-Iranian languages.

Studies

During the years 1923 to 1971, Morgenstierne carried out fieldwork in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Iran. In 1924, he undertook the first of his two major linguistic expeditions. He arrived in Kabul with a personal letter of introduction to the King of Afghanistan, from the King of Norway. Together with studying the languages, Morgenstierne collected remarkable scientific materials from the culture of the regional people, like images, movies from pre-Islamic ceremonial dances and sound recordings from nearly extinct languages. The materials are available in his database at the National Library of Norway.

Writings

• His publications Archived 2012-02-29 at the Wayback Machine listed in BIBSYS
• Report on a Linguistic Mission to Afghanistan. Instituttet for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning, Serie C I-2. Oslo. ISBN 0-923891-09-9
• Report on a Linguistic Mission to North-Western India by Georg Morgenstierne ISBN 0-923891-14-5

Further reading

• Nils Johan Ringdal: Georg Valentin von Munthe af Morgenstiernes forunderlige liv og reiser Aschehoug 2008 ISBN 978-82-03-18833-6 (in Norwegian)
• Ulf Andenæs: En norsk legende i Orienten. Bokanmeldelse i Aftenposten Kultur 22 May 2008 side 10 (in Norwegian)
• Hartmut Haberland: Bokmelding, Nils Johan Ringdal, Georg Valentin von Munthe af Morgenstiernes forunderlige liv og reiser, Rask. Internationalt tidsskrift for sprog og kommunikation (Odense) 36: 103-111.

References

1. "Georg Morgenstierne, the languages and culture of South Asia".

External links

• National Library of Norway
• Search the general Morgenstierne database in the National Library of Norway site

This article about a Norwegian writer, poet or journalist is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Linguists from Norway
• 1892 births
• 1978 deaths
• Academic staff of the University of Oslo
• Linguists of Indo-European languages
• Indologists
• Iranologists
• Linguists of Iranian languages
• Linguists of Indo-Aryan languages
• 20th-century linguists
• Corresponding fellows of the British Academy
• Norwegian writer stubs