'''Einar Ingvald Haugen''' (April_19, 1906 - June_20, 1994) was a linguist and Professor at University_of_Wisconsin and Harvard_University.
Haugen (pronounced HOW-gən) was born in Sioux_City,_Iowa to Norwegians from the town of Oppdal in Norway. As a young child, the family moved back to Oppdal for a few years, but then returned to the United_States. He attended Morningside_College in Sioux City but transferred to St._Olaf_College to study with Ole_Edvart_Rølvaag, where he earned his B.A. in 1928. He immediately went on to graduate studies in linguistics at the University_of_Illinois_at_Urbana-Champaign, where he was awarded his Ph.D. in 1931.
Haugen joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin in 1931, where he stayed until 1962. He was made Victor S. Thomas Professor of Scandinavian and Linguistics at Harvard University in 1964, and stayed here until his retirement in 1975. Haugen served as president of the Linguistic_Society_of_America, the American_Dialect_Society, and the Society_for_the_Advancement_of_Scandinavian_Study.
Haugen is credited for having pioneered the field of Sociolinguistics and being a leading scholar within the field of Norwegian-American studies, including Old_Norse studies. Perhaps his most important work was ''The Norwegian language in America; A study in bilingual behavior'' (ISBN 0-253-34115-9). In addition to several important works within these fields, he wrote the authoritative work on the dialect of his ancestral home of Oppdal and a book entitled ''The Ecology of Language'', with which he pioneered a new field of linguistics later called Ecolinguistics.
Haugen also wrote ''Norwegian American Dictionary/Norsk engelsk ordbok'' (ISBN 0-299-03874-2).
== External links ==
*Memorial minute from Harvard University
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