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Norwegian missionary, linguist and folklorist

"Bodding" redirects here. For the West German sprinter, see Inge Bödding.

Paul Olaf Bodding (2 November 1865 – 25 September 1938) was a Norwegian missionary, linguist and folklorist.^[1]

Biography

Paul Olaf Bodding was born at Gjøvik in Oppland, Norway.

He was the son of Edward Olsen Bodding (1825–1905) and Betzy Emilie Wennevold (1838–1889).

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Bodding was the son of a bookseller, and he first met the founder of The Indian Home Mission to the Santals (later developed to the NELC), Lars Olsen Skrefsrud, in his father's bookshop in Gjøvik. Skrefsrud was born just outside the neighbouring town Lillehammer, in Oppland.

Bodding studied theology at the University of Kristiania (now University of Oslo) and graduated in 1889.^[2]

In 1890, he arrived in Santalistan (Santal Parganas) as a missionary priest. When Skrefsrud died in 1909, Bodding took over as the leader of the Norwegian missionary org