Louis Hjelmslev, Danish linguist and academic (born 1899)

Louis Hjelmslev

Danish linguist (1899–1965)

Louis Trolle Hjelmslev was a Danish linguist whose ideas formed the basis of the Copenhagen School of linguistics. Born into an academic family, Hjelmslev studied comparative linguistics in Copenhagen, Prague and Paris. In 1931, he founded the Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague.…