Andreas Blinkenberg

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Andreas Peter Damsgaard Blinkenberg (born February 18, 1893 in Aarhus , † February 22, 1982 ) was a Danish Romanist .

Life

Blinkenberg, nephew of the classical archaeologist Christian Blinkenberg , graduated from high school in Aarhus in 1911. He studied philology and philosophy at the University of Copenhagen and passed the cand. Mag exam in 1918 . in French, English and Danish. From 1921 to 1923 he was a lecturer in Danish at the Sorbonne . He did his doctorate in Copenhagen on Ernest Renan. Bidrag til Belysning af hans filosofisk-Religøse Ungdomskrise [Ernest Renan. A contribution to the research of his philosophical-religious youth crisis] (Copenhagen 1923). From 1925 to 1928 he was an assistant for French at the University of Copenhagen. In 1928 he became a lecturer in Aarhus , where he was professor of French from 1934 and professor of Romance philology from 1941 to 1963. During this time he was also rector from 1937 to 1940 . Blinkenberg was involved in international university cooperation and was a member of the Danish UNESCO Commission from 1948 to 1958, and from 1964 he was a delegate to UNESCO and the General Conference of the Association Internationale des Universités .

Blinkenberg was a member from 1944 of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences , from 1945 of the Royal Science and Literature Society in Gothenburg , from 1964 of the Académie Nationale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux . In 1971 he became an honorary member of the Société de Linguistique Romane . He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Dijon in 1961 . Blinkenberg was commander of the Dannebrogden and knight of the Legion of Honor .

Publications (selection)

  • L'Ordre des mots en français moderne, Copenhagen 1928–1933, 3rd edition 1969
  • (Translation from French into Danish) Rousseau, Confessions, Copenhagen 1930, 1948, 1966
  • (together with Margrethe Thiele with the participation of Poul Højbye, Carl Hjort, Kristian Sandfeld and C. Thierry) Dansk-fransk ordbog [Danish-French dictionary], Copenhagen 1937, 3rd edition 1975–1977, 4th edition by Jens Rasmussen, Gerhard Boysen, Johan Windfeld Hansen, 1991
  • Le patois d'Entraunes. I: Matériaux phonétiques, morphologiques et syntactiques. II: Matériaux lexicologiques, Copenhagen 1939–1940
  • Fransk modstandsdigtning [French resistance seal]. En orientering og et udvalg digte, Copenhagen 1946
  • Le Patois de Beuil. Documents et notes, avec un appendice sur le parler de Péone, Aarhus 1948
  • The problem of the modern French accord. Essai d'une typologie, Copenhagen 1950
  • Aarhus Universitet 1928–1953, Copenhagen 1953
  • The problem of transitivity in French modernity. Essai syntacto-sémantique, Copenhagen 1960
  • (together with Poul Høybye with the participation of Arne Krog, Holger Schou, Johan Windfeld Hansen, Holger Schelde) Fransk-dansk ordbog [French-Danish dictionary], Copenhagen 1964–1966, 2nd edition by Johan Windfeld Hansen, Copenhagen 1984, 3. Edition by Gerhard Boysen, Johan Windfeld Hansen, François Marchetti, 1997
  • Montaigne, Copenhagen 1970
  • Amiel . Dage af en drømmers liv, Aarhus 1978

literature

  • Études romanes dédiées à Andreas Blinkenberg à l'occasion de son 70e anniversaire . Copenhagen 1963

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personal data
SURNAME Blinkenberg, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Damsgaard Blinkenberg, Andreas Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Aarhus
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1982