Eli Fischer-Jørgensen

Eli Fischer- Jørgensen ( born February 12, 1911 in Nakskov, Lolland, † 27 February, 2010 Virum, Denmark) was a Danish linguist.

Biography

Study and career

Eli Fischer- Jørgensen was the daughter of a savings bank director. At the age of eight years her family screwed up by Faaborg in the south of Funen, where she finished her schooling. She then studied 1929-1936 German language and French language at the University of Copenhagen, where she lived the last three years from 1933 to 1936 in the newly founded wife Residences ( Kvinderegensen ), and has been the driving forces of the Copenhagen Linguistic Circle ( Lingvistkredsen ), since they this 1933 joined.

In 1935 she presented her dissertation on Satzdefintionen and was awarded the Gold Medal of the University. In the following years, her interest developed for abstract discussions on phonetics and dedicated in the following years, this part of the phonology their main activities. At the end of the German occupation of Denmark during World War II, she was an active member of the resistance movement and also a leading member of the Freedom Council ( Frihedsrådet ), who established an archive about the cast for future litigation.

Because of the justified in the women's dorm, some lifelong friendships she was for many years a member of the local advisory board and its chairman from 1957 to 1974.

In 1966 she became the first professor of phonetics in Denmark and later founded the Institute of Phonetics, which she gave a strong position in the international research on phonetics. Here, she also managed the publication of the Danish language. At the height of her academic work, she was 1979 President of the International Congress of Phonetics, whose Secretary General, she was also some time.

Publications and Awards

In addition, she was not only a leading figure in the circle of Danish structuralists, but the author of numerous technical papers on language theory and phonetics, in which they also represented explanations and reviews the theory of Louis Hjelmslev.

My major work published in 1975 "Trends in phonological theory. A historical Introduction" last appeared as a reprint in 1995 and is considered a standard work on the language and its description in the character of structuralism, to invoke many newer representations. In addition, she gave in 1979 an anthology entitled " 25 years' phonological comments" out and in 2001 with " Tryk i Ældre dansk, Sammensaetninger above afledninger " a reference book on the altdänische language. Most recently, she wrote in 2005 together with Jens Ege the book " Interneringskartoteket: Om Carsten Høeg og hans group under besættelsen " about the work of the Peace Council, chaired by Carsten Høeg during the occupation.

For her contributions to linguistics and phonetics, she received honorary doctorates of the Universities of Copenhagen, Lund, Aarhus and Bayreuth. She was also the first female member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences in 1968. In addition to other awards were dedicated to her three Commemorative.