Aage Jørgensen (historian)
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Aage Jørgensen | |
|---|---|
| Born | 5 June 1938 |
| Died | 25 March 2023 |
| Education | Aarhus University |
| Occupation | Literary historian |
Aage Jørgensen (born 5 June 1938,[1] died 25 March 2023[2]) was a Danish literary historian and author.
Aage Jørgensen graduated from Ribe Cathedral School in 1957 and earned a Cand.art. degree in Danish and literary history from Aarhus University in 1966. He was employed at Aarhus University from 1967 to 1975, first as a graduate fellow and assistant professor, then as a substitute lecturer. Between 1975 and 2002, he was employed at Langkær Gymnasium as a lecturer.[3] From 1978 to 1988, he represented the Ministry of Education in the Danish Language Council.[3] From 1994 to 2013, he was a member of the steering committee for Johannes V. Jensen Forum at Aarhus University. He was a member of the Danish Society for Language and Literature from 2005.[4][3]
Aage Jørgensen published a number of writings (monographs, collected works, bibliographies) on Hans Christian Andersen, Karen Blixen, Søren Kierkegaard, Adam Oehlenschläger among others, and received awards including the Danish Writers Association's Hans Christian Andersen Scholarship in 1999 and the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2008. From 1989, he published around 20 books primarily related to Hans Christian Andersen and Johannes V. Jensen, contributed to several books, and published around 50 journal articles.[5][6]
Aage Jørgensen's 2009 book, Nærved og næsten, describes a number of Danish writers and other authors who were considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature.[7]