Thorsten Andersson

Karl Thorsten Gunnar Andersson (February 29, 1923 - April 4, 2018) was a Swedish toponymist, and a former Professor of Linguistics at Uppsala University.

Thorsten Andersson
Born(1929-02-23)February 23, 1929
Ödeshög Municipality, Sweden
DiedApril 22, 2018(2018-04-22) (aged 89)
Uppsala, Sweden
NationalitySwedish
Academic work
DisciplineToponymy
Institutions

Biography

Karl Thorsten Gunnar Andersson was born in Ödeshög Municipality, Sweden on February 29, 1923. 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.[1][2]

Andersson specialized in toponymy. He was the publisher of Namn och bygd and co-publisher of Studia Anthroponymica Scandinavica. He was the author of a large number of books and articles on Swedish place names and personal names. Andersson was a member of the Royal Society of the Humanities at Uppsala, the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. He died on April 4, 2018.[1][2]

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

References
  1. Hengst, Karlheinz (April 4, 2018). "Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Thorsten Andersson verstorben" (in German). Deutsche Gesellschaft für Namenforschung. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  2. "Thorsten Andersson" (in Swedish). Upsala Nya Tidning. May 20, 2018.
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