Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943

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Name (Latin)
Jespersen, Otto, 1860-1943
Other forms of name
Espersen, Otto, 1860-1943
Yeh-ssu-po-sen, Ao-tʻo, 1860-1943
Date of birth
1860-07-16
Date of death
1943-04-30
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 73913282
Wikidata: Q23870
Library of congress: n 79096864
OCoLC: oca00329068
Sources of Information
  • Universitets-jubilæets danske samfund, Copenhagen. Dania ...
  • Yü fa che hsüeh, 1988:t.p. (Ao-tʻo Yeh-ssu-po-sen) p. 1, 2nd group, etc. (Danish linguist; Otto Jespersen [in rom.]; b. 7-16-1860, Randers, Denmark; Ph. D., Oxford Univ.; d. 4-30-1943, Roskilde, Denmark)
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Wikipedia description:

Jens Otto Harry Jespersen (Danish: [ˈʌtsʰo ˈjespɐsn̩]; 16 July 1860 – 30 April 1943) was a Danish linguist who specialized in the grammar of the English language. Steven Mithen described him as "one of the greatest language scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."

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