Laurents Hallager

Hallager had a Danish background but he grew up in Bergen.

He studied in Copenhagen and received his medical degree in 1804. As a student, he compiled a glossary of approximately 6,000 Norwegian words and expressions, titled Norsk Ordsamling (Norwegian Vocabulary).^[2] Today, this is considered the first Norwegian dialect dictionary.

Hallager later worked as a doctor in Bergen.^[2]