{{Short description|Norwegian lecturer and politician}} {{Use dmy dates | date=November 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Trygve Bull | image = Trygve Bull.jpg | caption = Bull, c.1965 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date |1905|8|13|df=y}} | birth_place = Kristiania, Norway | death_date = {{Death date and age|1999|3|16|1905|8|13|df=y}} | death_place = | nationality = | spouse = | relatives = | alma_mater = | occupation = Politician | employer = | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | awards = }}

'''Trygve Friis Bull''' (13 August 1905 &ndash; 16 March 1999) was a Norwegian lecturer and politician. He was a member of Mot Dag in the 1920s and 1930s, and contributed to the magazines ''Mot Dag'', ''Clarté'' and ''Kontakt''.<ref name=snl/> During World War II he was imprisoned by the Germans, and incarcerated at the Grini and Sachsenhausen concentration camps.<ref name=gf>{{cite encyclopedia |title=7539. Bull, Trygve |encyclopedia=Norsk fangeleksikon. Grinifangene |editor=Børre R. Giertsen | page=273 |year=1946 |language=Norwegian|publisher=Cappelen |location=Oslo}}</ref> He was a politician for the Labour Party, a deputy representative to the Storting from 1957 to 1969, and later a politician for the Socialist Left Party. He was a member of the committee Norsk Språknemnd from its establishment in 1952 until 1972, and Norsk språkråd from 1972 to 1981.<ref name=snl>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Trygve Friis Bull |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |editor=Henriksen, Petter |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/Trygve_Friis_Bull |language=Norwegian | access-date=3 January 2010 }}</ref><ref name=nbl>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Trygve Bull |encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|editor=Helle, Knut|first=Arngeir |last=Berg |url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Trygve_Bull/utdypning |language=Norwegian|access-date=3 January 2010}}</ref>

==Early life== Bull was born in Kristiania and attended Oslo Cathedral School, obtaining his examen artium in 1924. He taught at Sydneshaugen School in Bergen from 1936 and at Bergen Cathedral School from 1937.<ref name=nbl/>

==Selected works== *''Mot Dag og Erling Falk'' (1955)

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