Gustav Natvig-Pedersen (18 August 1893 – 27 May 1965) was a Norwegian philologist, educator and politician for the Labour Party.
He was born in Stavanger as a son of sailmaker Johan Pedersen (1857–1941) and his wife Johanne Christine Natvig (1863–1940).
[1] He was elected to Stavanger city council for the first time in 1922, and was re-elected successively throughout the rest of the interwar period.
[1] Among the political cases during this period, Natvig-Pedersen made a mark in the language issue.
[2] He issued the orthographic dictionary Norsk rettskrivingsordliste in 1938 together with August Lange; the book was reprinted ten times.
He later served as a member of the Norwegian Language Committee from 1953 to 1962, and in 1959 he issued a new version of Norsk rettskrivingsordliste together with Kjølv Egeland.
[4] After the liberation he returned to his teaching job, the Norwegian Parliament and Stavanger city council.