Trygve Bull
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Trygve Bull | |
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 Bull, c.1965 | |
| Born | 13 August 1905 Kristiania, Norway |
| Died | 16 March 1999 (aged 93) |
| Occupation | Politician |
Trygve Friis Bull (13 August 1905 – 16 March 1999) was a Norwegian lecturer and politician. He was a member of Mot Dag in the 1920s and 1930s, and contributed to the magazines Mot Dag, Clarté and Kontakt.[1] During World War II he was imprisoned by the Germans, and incarcerated at the Grini and Sachsenhausen concentration camps.[2] He was a politician for the Labour Party, a deputy representative to the Storting from 1957 to 1969, and later a politician for the Socialist Left Party. He was a member of the committee Norsk Språknemnd from its establishment in 1952 until 1972, and Norsk språkråd from 1972 to 1981.[1][3]
