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Louis Hjelmslev

1899 - 1965

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Louis Trolle Hjelmslev (Danish: [ˈjelˀmsle̝w]; 3 October 1899 – 30 May 1965) was a Danish linguist whose ideas formed the basis of the Copenhagen School of linguistics. Born into an academic family (his father was the mathematician Johannes Hjelmslev), Hjelmslev studied comparative linguistics in Copenhagen, Prague and Paris (with Antoine Meillet and Joseph Vendryes, among others). In 1931, he founded the Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Hjelmslev has received more than 163,234 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Louis Hjelmslev is the 35th most popular linguist (down from 28th in 2019), the 123rd most popular biography from Denmark and the 2nd most popular Danish Linguist.

Louis Hjelmslev was a Danish linguist who developed the theory of glossematics, which is the study of language in terms of two dimensions: the horizontal dimension (the system) and the vertical dimension (the structure).

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Louis Hjelmslev ranks 35 out of 214. Before him are Pompeu Fabra, Franz Miklosich, Nicholas Marr, Michel Bréal, Georg Friedrich Grotefend, and Alexandre de Rhodes. After him are Vasily Radlov, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, Otto Jespersen, André Martinet, and Vilhelm Thomsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Louis Hjelmslev ranks 53. Before him are Franz Jonas, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Georges Auric, Charles Boyer, Henri Michaux, and P. L. Travers. After him are Lao She, Lev Kuleshov, Andrei Platonov, Alma Reville, Fritz Bayerlein, and Brassaï. Among people deceased in 1965, Louis Hjelmslev ranks 29. Before him are Dorothea Lange, La Belle Otero, Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland, Joseph Erlanger, Paul Tillich, and Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood. After him are Fan Noli, Adolf Schärf, Frederick Fleet, David O. Selznick, Mehdi Ben Barka, and Lauri Törni.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Louis Hjelmslev ranks 123 out of 1,032. Before him are Martin Andersen Nexø (1869), Sweyn III of Denmark (1125), Erik Bruhn (1928), Prince Valdemar of Denmark (1858), Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891), and Asger Jorn (1914). After him are Prince Joachim of Denmark (1969), Theophil Hansen (1813), Bjarne Stroustrup (1950), Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg (1796), Morten Olsen (1949), and Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland (1456).

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Among LINGUISTS In Denmark

Among linguists born in Denmark, Louis Hjelmslev ranks 2. Before him are Rasmus Rask (1787). After him are Otto Jespersen (1860), Vilhelm Thomsen (1842), Holger Pedersen (1867), Hans Ørberg (1920), Johan Nicolai Madvig (1804), and Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854).

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