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Otto Jespersen
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Person

Otto Jespersen

1860 – 1943 · aged 83

Danish linguist (1860–1943)

Born
16 Jul 1860 · Randers
Died
30 Apr 1943 · Roskilde
Part ofDenmark800 CE – todayDanish Realm911 CE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 95 years
  1. 16 Jul 1860BornBorn in Randers
  2. 1901AwardKnight of the Order of the Dannebrog
  3. 1906AwardVolney Prize
  4. 1910AwardHonorary doctorate from Columbia University
  5. 1920 – 1921RoleRector
  6. 1925AwardHonorary doctor of the University of St Andrews
  7. 1927AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
  8. 30 Apr 1943DiedDied in Roskilde

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1860 – 1943).

  1. 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
  2. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  3. 1898Spanish–American War
  4. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  5. 1914 – 1918World War I
  6. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  7. 1917Balfour Declaration
  8. 1917February Revolution
  9. 1917October Revolution
  10. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  11. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  12. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  13. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  14. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  15. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  16. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  17. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1938Munich Agreement
  19. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  20. 1939 – 1945World War II
  21. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  22. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  23. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  24. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  25. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad

Biography

Jens Otto Harry Jespersen (Danish: [ˈʌtˢo 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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