Alf Torp
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Alf Torp (September 27, 1853 in Bergen – September 26, 1916 in Kristiania) was a Norwegian philologist and author.
[edit] Life
He became cand. philol. in 1877, and in 1894 he became professor in Sanskrit and comparative linguistics. He was a student of Sophus Bugge, and under a stay in Leipzig in 1878-80 a student of G. Curtius and E. Windisch. In 1881 he got his doctorate at the University of Leipzig with the dissertation Die Flexion des Pali in ihrem Verhältnis zum Sanskrit.
[edit] Work
Among many other works he published the book Etymologisk ordbog over det norske og det danske sprog (Etymological dictionary of the Norwegian and Danish languages) together with Hjalmar Falk in 1903-06, which was the only Norwegian etymological dictionary for nearly a hundred years until it was replaced by Harald Bjorvand og Fredrik Otto Lindeman's Våre arveord - etymologisk ordbok in 2000.
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