Background
His father was a teacher in Årdal, Jølster.
linguist philologist translator
His father was a teacher in Årdal, Jølster.
He graduated in 1917, took a doctorate (drphilol) in 1925, and became professor in linguistics in 1930. He published over 200 scholarly papers. Linguistically he was an advocate of the Aasen line of new Norwegian, and he was the chairman of Noregs Mållag from 1930 to 1932.
Interested in toponymy, Indrebø established Norsk Stadnamnarkiv in 1921 together with fellow professors Magnus Olsen and Edvard Bulletin, Senior