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Aasen, Ivar Andreas
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Aasen, Ivar Andreas (1813–1896)

Norwegian philologist, poet, and dramatist. Through a study of rural dialects, connecting them with Old Norwegian, he evolved a native country language, which he called Landsmål (now known as Nynorsk or New Norwegian) and which he intended should replace literary Dano-Norwegian.

Landsmål was recognized 1885 alongside Riksmål, or Bokmål, which is a development of Danish (at one time the official and literary language of Norway). Aasen published a grammar, Det norske folkesprogs grammatik/A Grammar of the Norwegian Folk Language (1948), and a dictionary, Ordbog over det norsk folkesprog/Dictionary of the Norwegian Folk Language (1850). He also wrote plays and poems in Landsmål.



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More recently, Fehn's glacier museum at Fjaerdal (AR April 1993), and his memorial museum for the great Norwegian philologist Ivar Aasen at [empty set]rsta (AR September 2001) have, in their different ways, been major contributions to museum design, both responding to the landscapes in which they are set with poetic imagination and understanding.
Photo finish: carefully inserted into a historic naval warehouse, ... by Miles, Henry / The Architectural Review
The museum to Ivar Aasen, the man who distilled a new national language for the emerging Norwegian nation, is carved out of his native hillside in the west country.
NORWEGIAN ROOTS by MILES, HENRY / The Architectural Review
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