Otto Jespersen
Danish linguist (1860–1943)
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- Fame52.0
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- Writers rank#245
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Lived 1860–1943, aged 83
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Updated 2026-06-21
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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