# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ivar-aasen
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:40:29.788Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Ivar Andreas Aasen was born on 5 August 1813, a Norwegian philologist and lexicographer who would spend his life in the service of language. He travelled the country gathering dialects, then constructed Nynorsk — a written standard drawn from the variants he'd documented. The work made him a playwright and poet in the tongue he'd shaped. He died on 23 September 1896, having given Norway a second official language.