Thorsten Andersson

Karl Thorsten Gunnar Andersson (23 February 1929 – 4 April 2018) was a Swedish toponymist, and a former professor of linguistics at Uppsala University.

Biography Karl Thorsten Gunnar Andersson was born in Ödeshög Municipality, Sweden on 23 February 1929. He was an associate professor of Swedish at the University of Münster from 1957 to 1960. Andersson received his PhD from Uppsala University in 1965, where he subsequently became a docent in Nordic languages. From 1971 to 1994, Andersson was Professor of Linguistics at Uppsala University.

Selected works Svenska häradsnamn, 1965 Namn i Norden och det forna Europa, 1989