Johan Fjord Jensen

Rasmus Johan Fjord Jensen (born December 17, 1928 in Kenya , † December 21, 2005 ) was a Danish literary historian and cultural researcher .

Life

After attending school, Fjord Jensen studied literary history and graduated in November 1959 with a master's degree . He then dealt with literary history and cultural studies topics in numerous books and articles and thus contributed to influencing various theoretical approaches and currents. After a brief activity as a teacher at the social pedagogical seminar in Aarhus , he became an assistant professor at the Nordic Institute in April 1960.

After first publications like Turgenjev i dansk åndsliv. Studier i dansk romankunst 1870-1900 (1961), the introductory book Den ny kritik (1962) and the culturally radical Homo Manipulatus (1966) he became department head at the Nordic Institute in 1966. Furthermore, in 1967 he was co-founder of the culture and literary magazine Criticism alongside Aage Henriksen and for this he was the first recipient of the Georg Brandes Prize in 1969 . After he was co-editor of the ideology-critical collective work Søndags-BT (1971), he received the Søren Gyldendal Prize in 1972 and published the book Tegneserier in 1973 .

In 1974 Fjord Jensen accepted a professorship for literary history at Aarhus University and taught there until his retirement in 1992. During this time, from 1984 to 1985, he was instrumental in the publication of Dansk litteraturhistorie 1-9 , in which nearly 50 researchers published a new comprehensive account of Danish literature , written from a historical-materialistic perspective . In addition, he published in 1987 Det tredje (1987) and was also a co-founder in 1988 of the Center for Cultural Research ( Center for Kulturforskning ) at the University of Aarhus.

Most recently he published Livsbuen in 1993 , in which he devoted his interest to a holistic cultural criticism .

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SURNAME	Fjord Jensen, Johan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fjord Jensen, Rasmus Johan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Danish literary historian and critic
DATE OF BIRTH	December 17, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kenya
DATE OF DEATH	December 21, 2005