Laurents Hallager Explained

Laurents Hallager (12 November 1777 – 2 February 1825) was a Norwegian physician and lexicographer.^[1]

Life

Hallager had a Danish background but he grew up in Bergen.

He studied in Copenhagen and received his medical degree in 1804. As a student, he compiled a glossary of approximately 6,000 Norwegian words and expressions, titled Norsk Ordsamling (Norwegian Vocabulary).^[2] Today, this is considered the first Norwegian dialect dictionary.

Hallager later worked as a doctor in Bergen.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Laurents Hallager. Bondevik. Jarle. Jarle Bondevik. Norsk biografisk leksikon. Norwegian. 27 February 2012.
2. http://tidsskriftet.no/pdf/pdf2004/1962.pdf Hem, Erlend. 2004. Laurents Hallager – lege og språkmann. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening 124(15): 1962.