Norwegian professor of North Germanic languages and literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. In 1950 and 1951 he worked on Norsk Ordbok (Norwegian Dictionary). From 1951 to 1956 he taught Norwegian at the University of Copenhagen and in Aarhus, and from 1962 to 1969 he taught Nordic linguistics at the University of Bergen. In 1969 he became a professor at the Norwegian College of General Sciences, remaining in this position until he retired in 1988.
Djupedal studied at the University of Oslo until the fall of 1943 when was arrested on 30 November and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp as one of the approximately 650 male students at the University of Oslo interned in German prison camps during the Second World War II from December 1943 to May 1945 known as the “German students.”
Djupedal is especially known for his work on Ivar Aasen; he published Aasen’s letters and diaries in three volumes, and together with Johannes Gjerdåker he also published Aasen’s Norske ordsprog (Norwegian Proverbs) and wrote a long afterword for the work. Djupedal’s Aasen collection is kept at the Ivar Aasen Documentation Centerin Ørsta.
Djupedal also wrote extensively about Faroese, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, the literary magazine Dølen, and Norwegian folk tales and poetry.
Djupedal died on 29 July 1989 aged 68.
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