Arthur O. Sandved

Arthur O. Sandved (2 February 1931 – 10 April 2021) was a Norwegian philologist.

Early life He was a son of a carpenter in Bryne. In 1951 he graduated from Rogaland Landsgymnas. He married Ruth Øgaard in August 1953 in Bryne and had three daughters. They took up residence at Billingstad.

Career Sandved took the cand.philol. degree at the University of Oslo in 1959, was a lecturer in English philology at the Norwegian College of Teaching in Trondheim from 1959 to 1963. He then took up the same position at the University of Oslo, where he took the dr.philos. degree in 1968. He was a docent before serving as professor from 1974.

Sandved was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Norwegian Academy. Sandved favoured the Riksmål written standard of Norwegian.

In 1979 he joined the translation committee of the Norwegian Bible Society, He was involved in his local Holmen Church. A conservative, he was elected to Asker municipal council for the Conservative Party, but resigned his party membership when the Conservative Party accepted abortion. He also supported European integration and was active in the European Movement. He died in April 2021, aged 90.