Otto Jespersen
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- 1860-01-01
- Died
- 1943-04-01
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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
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5 total works indexed
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,368x
- 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 15,355x
- On the Origin of Cancer Cells
· 1956 · cited 11,326x
- Development and validation of a geriatric depression screening scale: A preliminary report
· 1982 · cited 11,058x
- 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 10,795x
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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
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- Linguist
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Key dates
- Born
- 1 January 1860
- Died
- 1 April 1943
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- human
- Given name
- Harry
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Danish Realm
- Place of birth
- Randers
- Place of death
- Copenhagen
- Occupation
- opinion journalist
- Position held
- rector
- Employer
- University of Copenhagen
- Political party
- Social Democrats
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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."
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