Oddvar Nes (27 December 1938 – 18 September 2016) was a Norwegian linguist.
[1] He became a research assistant at the University of Bergen in 1964, and was promoted to associate professor in 1973 and professor in 1987.
His speciality is onomastics.
He was a visiting scholar at University of Vienna from 1988 to 1989, and a member of Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy.
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