Einfrid Perstølen | |
Birth Date: | 15 June 1917 |
Death Date: | 7 January 2017 |
Nationality: | Norwegian |
Occupation: | physician |
Known For: | child psychiatry, Nynorsk |
Einfrid Perstølen (15 June 1917 – 7 January 2017) was a Norwegian psychiatrist and language proponent.
She was born in Ål, and was a specialist in child psychiatry. She was an assisting chief physician in Oslo from 1961 to 1972, and then ran a private clinic. She made frequent appearances in Norwegian radio.[1] She settled in Asker.[2]
Perstølen was a proponent of the Nynorsk written form of Norwegian. She was a member of the board of Noregs Mållag from 1966 to 1971, and a member of the Norwegian Language Council from 1976 to 1984.[1] She is known for pressuring the Bank of Norway to print Nynorsk tekst together with Bokmål on Norwegian krone bills, particularly through a series of letters to the Governor of the Bank of Norway, Knut Getz Wold.[2] Perstølen died in January 2017 at the age of 99.