What is Nils Århammar?
{{Infobox person | name = Nils Århammar | image = | caption = | birth_name = Nils Rudolf Århammar | birth_date = {{Birth date|1931|8|7|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Katrineholm]], Sweden | death_date = {{death date and age|2022|1|10|1931|8|7|df=y}} | death_place = [[Bredstedt]], Germany | monuments = | residence = | nationality = Swedish | occupation = linguist | known_for = | relatives = | awards = }} '''Nils Rudolf Århammar''' (7 August 1931 – 10 January 2022) was a Swedish linguist.<ref name=ref3 /> ==Biography== Århammar studied [[German language]] in [[Uppsala]], [[Münster]], [[Cologne]] and [[Marburg]]. In the early 1960s, he was a research assistant at the North Frisian Dictionary Unit at the [[Kiel University]], he did research on the use of the North Frisian dialects [[Föhr North Frisian]] and [[Amrum North Frisian]] on the islands of [[Föhr]] and [[Amrum]]. Afterwards started working at the [[University of Marburg]], where he became a lecturer in [[Swedish language]] in 1966. He continued his Frisian research at the same time.<ref name=ref3>{{cite web|url=https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-fau/frontdoor/index/index/docId/664 |title=Nils Arhammar|work=opus4.kobv.de|access-date=17 January 2023|language=de}}</ref> In 1968, Århammar was commissioned by the [[Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur]] to continue the scientific {{ill|Helgoländer Wörterbuch|de|Heligoland dictionary}}, which was later withdrawn. In 1974 he was became lecturer in Germanic [[philology]] with particular responsibility for [[Frisian languages]] and [[Low German]]. In 1976 he became professor in Frisian languates and [[Gothic language]] at the [[University of Groningen]] in the Netherlands.<ref name=ref3 /> In 1988, he became the first (and only) professor of Frisian and Frisian didactics at the [[University of Flensburg]]. At the same time, the position of director at the [[Nordfriisk Instituut]] in [[Bredstedt]], was linked with the professorship in Flensburg.<ref name=ref3 /> After his retirement in 1996, he and his wife