Den levende fonograf: Nordmændenes Professor Higgins

By Arne Juul. University of Southern Denmark Studies in Linguistics vol. 14. Rask Supplement Vol. 13. Syddansk Universitetsforlag. 2002. 170 pp.

Abstract

English was taught at the University of Oslo from the early 1820s, but did not become an academic discipline proper until fifty years later, when Johan Storm was appointed Professor of English and Romance Languages. Johan Storm was a man of quite extraordinary abilities. He produced scholarly work of high standard in various disciplines: phonetics, Norwegian dialectology, English language, French syntax — and also 'applied linguistics', if I may be allowed to use the term somewhat anachronistically.