Johan Storm was a Norwegian linguist. He was a professor of English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 and Roman philology at the University of Christiania

University of Oslo

The University of Oslo , formerly The Royal Frederick University , is the oldest and largest university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the recently established University of Berlin...

 for almost four decades, from 1873 to 1912. His work Norsk Retskrivning in two volumes (1904 and 1906) was a contribution to the language disputes in Norway. He was the brother of historian Gustav Storm

Gustav Storm

Gustav Storm was a Norwegian historian, a professor at the University of Christiania from 1877. He was a driving force in the research of Scandinavian history and literature of the Middle Ages.-Personal life:...

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Storm was decorated Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1904.