# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/otto-jespersen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:00:54.418Z

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name: "Otto Jespersen"
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description: "Jens Otto Harry Jespersen 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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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump