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Otto Jespersen

Danish linguist (1860–1943)

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About Otto Jespersen

Jens Otto Harry Jespersen 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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Occupation: linguist, Esperantist, autobiographer, pedagogue

Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image by Laurberg & Gad via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

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Kingdom of Denmark

Born

July 16, 1860, 1860

Died

April 30, 1943, 1943, April 1943

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