About Hans Jørgensen
Lived 1886 – 1954 (aged 67–68). Hans Jørgensen was a German and Danish linguist.
Hans Jørgensen (1886–1954) was the founder of Newar studies in the west. He published a Newar grammar and dictionary and studies of a number of newar texts. He received his doctorate in 1911 at Kiel University in Sanskrit and worked at the Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin until 1919.
Jørgensen, Hans (1941). A grammar of the classical Newārī. Copenhagen: E. Munksgaard
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Who was Hans Jørgensen?
Danish scholar (1886–1954)
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Hans Jørgensen was born in 1886 in Oksbøl.
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Hans Jørgensen died in 1954.
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Hans Jørgensen was a linguist.
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Hans Jørgensen was German and Danish.
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