Nils Århammar

Nils Århammar
Born	Nils Rudolf Århammar (1931-08-07)7 August 1931 Katrineholm, Sweden
Died	10 January 2022(2022-01-10) (aged 90) Bredstedt, Germany
Nationality	Swedish
Occupation	linguist

Nils Rudolf Århammar (7 August 1931 – 10 January 2022) was a Swedish linguist.

Biography

Århammar studied German language in Uppsala, Münster, Cologne and Marburg. In the early 1960s, he was a research assistant at the North Frisian Dictionary Unit at the Kiel University, he did research on the use of the North Frisian dialects Föhr North Frisian and Amrum North Frisian on the islands of Föhr and Amrum. Afterwards started working at the University of Marburg, where he became a lecturer in Swedish language in 1966. He continued his Frisian research at the same time.

In 1968, Århammar was commissioned by the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur to continue the scientific Helgoländer Wörterbuch, which was later withdrawn. In 1974 he was became lecturer in Germanic philology with particular responsibility for Frisian languages and Low German. In 1976 he became professor in Frisian languates and Gothic language at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

In 1988, he became the first (and only) professor of Frisian and Frisian didactics at the University of Flensburg. At the same time, the position of director at the Nordfriisk Instituut in Bredstedt, was linked with the professorship in Flensburg.

After his retirement in 1996, he and his wife Ritva Århammar worked on the still unfinished Helgoländer Wörterbuch.

Århammar died in Bredstedt on 10 January 2022, at the age of 90.