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Place of Birth: Oslo, Eastern Norway, Norway
About Ernst Håkon Jahr
- Ernst Håkon Jahr (born 4 March 1948) is a Norwegian linguist with about 230 publications, including about 50 books.
- He is currently (2012) dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Education at the University of Agder. He was born in Oslo, and took his cand.philol.
- (PhD) degree at the University of Oslo in 1976, and his dr.philos.
- (i.e., Dr.
- hab.) degree at the University of Tromsø in 1984.
- He worked as an associate professor at the University of Tromsø from 1976, as professor of Scandinavian linguistics from 1986.
- In 1999 he moved to Agder University College, where he served as rector from 2000 to 2007.
- He was succeeded in August 2007, only one month before the University College became the University of Agder.
- He biographised the linguist Clara Holst in the book Clara Holst – kvinnelig pionér i akademia i Norge (2006). He is a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and several foreign academies.
- In 2002, he initiated the establishment and was elected the president of the Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters, which 2011 has 220 elected members from Agder, Norway outside Agder and from abroad.
- He is elected member of eight academies in Norway and abroad. Jahr holds an honorary degree from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and from the Uppsala University.
- In 2008 he was proclaimed a Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St.
- Olav.
- In 2011, he was awarded the Swedish Academy's Nordic Prize, known as the 'little Nobel'.
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