Odd Einar Haugen is professor of Old Norse Philology at the University of Bergen, Norway. He was born and grew up in Lunde, Telemark, but moved to Bergen in 1973 when he began his studies at the university. He is not related to the American linguist Einar Haugen. Haugen took his cand.philol. degree at the University of Bergen in 1982. The subject for this thesis was two of the interpolations in the Old NorwegianBarlaams ok Josaphats saga. He defended his dr.philos. thesis at the University in Bergen in 1992, on the quantitative and qualitative textual criticism of Niðrstigningar saga, Stamtre og tekstlandskap. In the period 1982–1992, he was working as a research assistant in Old Norse Philology at the University of Bergen. He was appointed professor of Old Norse Philology at the University of Bergen from 1 January 1993, and he remains in this position. In two periods, he has also been guest professor at the University of Zürich. In 2000–2001, Haugen was leader of the research group Editing medieval manuscripts at the Centre for Advanced Study in Oslo. Since 2001 he has been head of Medieval Nordic Text Archive, and in the period 2001–2015 of Medieval Unicode Font Initiative. In the period 2010–2013, he was partner in the Menotec project in which a corpus of Old Norwegian manuscripts were transcribed and annotated morphologically and syntactically. He was editor of the journal Maal og Minne 1995–2005, and he is presently editor of the book seriesBibliotheca Nordica. He was one of the founders and the first editor-in-chief of the Parvum Lexicon Stemmatologicum hosted at the University of Helsinki. Haugen has published widely on subjects within Old Norse philology and linguistics, textual criticism, textual and character encoding, and he has lectured at a number of European universities. He has published grammars of Old Norse and has edited "Handbok i norrøn filologi", which was translated into German as "Altnordische Philologie. Norwegen und Island". Haugen is member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy, and he is Norwegian member of Comité International de Paléographie Latine .
