Sture Allén

{{Short description|Swedish linguistics professor (1928–2022)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Sture Allén

| image = Sture Allén, Bokmässan 2013 3 (crop).jpg

| caption = Allén at the Gothenburg Book Fair in 2013

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1928|12|31|df=y}}

| birth_place = Gothenburg, Sweden

| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|06|20|1928|12|31|df=y}}

| death_place = Stockholm, Sweden

| nationality = Swedish

| alma_mater = University of Gothenburg

| occupation = Linguist; Professor of Computational linguistics at University of Gothenburg

| known_for =

| spouse = {{marriage|Solveig Jansson|1954}}

| awards =

| module = {{Infobox officeholder |embed=yes

| office = Member of the Swedish Academy
(Seat No. 3)

| termstart = 20 December 1980

| termend = 20 June 2022

| predecessor = Carl Ivar Ståhle

| successor = David Håkansson

| name =

| office2 = Permanent Secretary
of the Swedish Academy

| termstart2 = June 1986

| termend2 = June 1999

| predecessor2 = Lars Gyllensten

| successor2 = Horace Engdahl

}}

}}

Sture Allén (31 December 1928 – 20 June 2022)Anjefelt, Monica. (20 June 2022) "[https://www.svt.se/kultur/sture-allen-har-avlidit-1 Akademiledamoten Sture Allén har avlidit]", SVT Nyheter. Retrieved 20 June 2022. {{in lang|sv}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/sture-allen-har-avlidit/|title=Sture Allén är död – blev 93 år gammal|website=www.expressen.se|date=20 June 2022 |lang=sv}} was a Swedish professor of computational linguistics at the University of Gothenburg, who was the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy between 1986 and 1999. Born in Gothenburg, he was elected to chair 3 of the Swedish Academy in 1980.{{cite web | last = Arnald | first = Jan | title = Chair no. 3 – Sture Allén | work = Svenska Akadmien | url = http://www.svenskaakademien.se/web/938e01b1-b318-4c23-ba05-954127697d2a.aspx | access-date = 21 January 2010 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090926173604/http://www.svenskaakademien.se/web/938e01b1-b318-4c23-ba05-954127697d2a.aspx | archive-date = 26 September 2009 }} He was also a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters{{cite web|url=http://www.dnva.no/c26849/artikkel/vis.html?tid=40108|title=Gruppe 5: Filologi og språkvitenskap|publisher=Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters|language=no|access-date=10 January 2011}} and the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters.{{Cite web|url=http://scientiarum.fi/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Utlandska-ledamoter-15.1.2021-2.pdf|title=Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters – Foreign Members}}