Kurt Westergaard
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Denmark
- Active from
- 1976-08-06
Discography
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 39,459x
- A Brief Measure for Assessing Generalized Anxiety Disorder
· 2006 · cited 28,914x
- Multilayer feedforward networks are universal approximators
· 1989 · cited 18,301x
- Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics
· 2004 · cited 10,287x
- A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 9,263x
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Key facts
- Born
- Kurt Vestergaard , ( 1935-07-13 ) 13 July 1935, Døstrup , Denmark
- Died
- 14 July 2021 (2021-07-14) (aged 86), Copenhagen , Denmark
- Education
- Ranum Seminarium [ da ] , University of Copenhagen
- Occupation
- Cartoonist
- Known for
- Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
- Awards
- Sappho Award , M100 Media Award
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Encyclopedic overview
Kurt Westergaard (born Kurt Vestergaard; 13 July 1935 – 14 July 2021) was a Danish cartoonist. In 2005 he drew a cartoon of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, wearing a bomb in his turban as a part of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons, which triggered several assassinations and murders committed by Muslim extremists around the world, diplomatic conflicts, and state-organized riots and attacks on Western embassies with several dead in Muslim countries. After the drawing of the cartoon, Westergaard received numerous death threats and was a target of assassination attempts. As a result, he was under constant police protection.
Early life
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