Pétur Þorsteinsson
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Born in Borgarfjörður on May 5, 1955. Icelandic neologist, youth-leader and vicar of the Óháði Söfnuðurinn or Independent Parish, a Lutheran church. He lives in Reykjavík with his daughter Ásta Pétursdóttir. He published the Pétrísk-Íslensk Orðabók (Petrish-Icelandic dictionary), a list of self-made neologisms that has received much attention in Iceland. In 2004, he became president of the High Icelandic Language Movement (Háfrónska málhreyfingin), a movement that endeavours to build a variant of Icelandic that is free of loan-words.
