Seán Vrieland
Associate Professor
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolSeán Vrieland is an Associate Professor and Nordic philologist based in Copenhagen with eight years of academic experience focused on the development and written sources of Nordic languages, especially Late Medieval and Early Modern manuscripts. He completed a PhD on Old Gutnish in 2017, combining close manuscript work with paleography, codicology, and textual criticism to recover understudied medieval language use on Gotland. At the University of Copenhagen he has progressed from PhD student to postdoc and research staff, now holding a professorial role that bridges teaching, research, and editorial responsibility for national reference works. Fluent in comparative Indo-European methods from his Leiden MA, he brings rare technical philological skills—such as deciphering post-medieval copies and tracing linguistic change across fragmentary sources—that inform both scholarship and public-facing lexicography.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Nordic Philology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Nordic Philology at Københavns Universitet - University of CopenhagenM.A. Cum Laude, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics, M.A. Cum Laude, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Universiteit Leiden / Leiden UniversityLinguistics, Linguistics at Háskóli ÍslandsB.A., English, Linguistics, B.A., English, Linguistics at Calvin UniversityThe University of the Faroe Islands
Dutch, Icelandic, Swedish, faroese, DanishProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bedebok/Data
Jul 2022 - Apr 2025
Contributions:416 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
sdvrie/Haandskrift
Sep 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
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