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Sophus Bugge | |
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| Born | 5 January 1833 Larvik, Norway |
| Died | 8 July 1907 (aged 74) Christiana, Norway |
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Karen Sophie Schreiner
(m. 1869; died 1897) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | linguistics, historical linguistics, Old Norse |
| Institutions | Christiana University |
Elseus Sophus Bugge (5 January 1833 – 8 July 1907) was a Norwegian philologist and linguist. His scholarly work was directed to the study of runic inscriptions and Norse philology. Bugge is best known for his theories and his work on the runic alphabet and the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda.[1]