Laurents Hallager
Laurents Hallager was a Norwegian physician and lexicographer.
Life
Hallager had a Danish background but he grew up in Bergen.He studied in Copenhagen and received his medical degree in 1804. As a student, he compiled a glossary of approximately 6,000 Norwegian words and expressions, titled Norsk Ordsamling. Today, this is considered the first Norwegian dialect dictionary.
Hallager later worked as a doctor in Bergen.