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Otto Jespersen
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Danish linguist (1860–1943)
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Otto Jespersen was a Danish linguist, Esperantist, and pedagogue who served as a rector at the University of Copenhagen. Born in Randers in 1860, he died in Roskilde, Copenhagen, in 1943. He was educated at the University of Oxford and the University of Copenhagen. Jespersen was a member of the International Phonetic Association, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, the Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. He was also a member of the Social Democrats party.
Jespersen spoke and wrote in Danish, English, Esperanto, and Ido. He received the Volney Prize for his work. His notable publications include *Modersmalets fonetik, anden udvidede og gennemsigtede udgave*, *Ergänzungsheft zu Spoken English*, *Lehrbuch der Phonetik*, *Logic & grammar*, and *Chaucer's liv og digtning*.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1860
- Died
- 1943
- Works
- 151
Top works
- Modersmalets fonetik, anden udvidede og gennemsigtede udgave
- Ergänzungsheft zu Spoken English
- Lehrbuch der Phonetik
- Logic & grammar
- Chaucer's liv og digtning
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,797
- Total plays
- 17,878
Otto Jespersen (born 21 July 1954) is a Norwegian comedian and satirist. He started in the local radio Radio Nova in Oslo. In 1988 he was, together with his collaborates Stig Holmer and Charlo Halvorsen, to launch the magazine Revolvermagasinet on Norwegian national radio. This, a night time, underground-ish show, focused on satire and weird interviews. In 1992 Jespersen, Holmer and Halvorsen teamed up for in The Show - storbymoro for enslige i Utkant-Norge on national television. <a href="https
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,760x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,947x
- On the Origin of Cancer Cells
· 1956 · cited 11,438x
- Development and validation of a geriatric depression screening scale: A preliminary report
· 1982 · cited 11,172x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,992x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1860-07-16 ) 16 July 1860, Randers , Denmark
- Died
- 30 April 1943 (1943-04-30) (aged 82), Roskilde , Denmark
- Occupation
- Linguist
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Encyclopedic overview
Jens Otto Harry Jespersen ( Danish: [ˈʌtsʰo ˈjespɐsn̩]; 16 July 1860 – 30 April 1943) was a Danish linguist who worked in foreign-language pedagogy, historical phonetics, and other areas, but is best known for his description of the grammar of the English language. Steven Mithen describes him as "one of the greatest language scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."
Early life
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