Pétur Þorsteinsson

Who is Pétur Þorsteinsson?

Pétur Þorsteinsson is an Icelandic neologist, youth-leader and vicar of the Óháði Söfnuðurinn or Independent Parish, a Lutheran church. He published the Pétrísk-Íslensk Orðabók, a list of self-made neologisms that has received much attention in Iceland. In 2004 he became president of the High Icelandic Language Movement, a movement that endeavours to build a variant of Icelandic that is free of loan-words. He lives in Reykjavík