Geir T. Zoëga

Geir Tómasson Zoëga (G. T. Zoëga), born 1857, died 1928, was an Icelandic linguist, known for writing several English-to-Icelandic and Icelandic-to-English dictionaries, as well as a dictionary on Old Icelandic, largely corresponding to Old Norse.

Career Zoëga was the first master in the Grammar School of Reykjavík.

Throughout his life he released several English-to-Icelandic and Icelandic-to-English dictionaries. He died in 1928, before he could finish the third edition of his Icelandic-to-English dictionary. The editorship then fell to his son-in-law Þorsteinn Þorsteinsson (1880–1979), husband of Zoëga's daughter Guðrún Geirsdóttir Zoëga (1887–1955), and was released in 1932.

Personal life Geir Zoëga had two daughters: Guðrún Geirsdóttir Zoëga (1887–1955) and Sigríður Geirsdóttir Zoëga (1889–1968).

Guðrún married Icelandic economist Þorsteinn Þorsteinsson (1880–1979), giving Geir five grandchildren between them. Sigríður never married but had a daughter with painter Jón Stefánsson whom she raised alone.