About Trygve Heltveit
Lived 1913 – 1985 (aged 71). Trygve Heltveit was a Norwegian philologist.
Harald Trygve Heltveit (8 December 1913 – 21 August 1985) was a Norwegian philologist.
He was born in Balestrand Municipality as a son of teacher Olav Heltveit (1873–1959) and Petra Sættevik (1878–1947). In 1943 he married Erna Røisum.
He became a student in 1936 and graduated with the cand.philol. degree from the University of Oslo in 1942. He was hired as a school teacher at Vestheim School in 1943 and Sinsen School in 1952, but received a research fellowship in 1947 and took the dr.philos. degree in 1954 with the thesis Studies in English Demonstrative Pronouns. He was hired as a lecturer in 1954, was promoted to docent in 1962 and professor in 1970.
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Norwegian philologist (1913-1985)
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Trygve Heltveit was born on 8 December 1913 in Balestrand Municipality.
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Trygve Heltveit died on 21 August 1985.
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Trygve Heltveit was a philologist.
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Trygve Heltveit was Norwegian.
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