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Frede Jensen, Ph.D., (February 17, 1926 - September 13, 2008) was a 20th-century, Danish-born Romance philologist, author, and professor of French. Author of 17 books and over 60 articles, he was widely respected by the romance philology community and recognized as an expert in the field.〔(www.cu.edu ), accessed 3/12/2013〕 He is highly esteemed for his detailed and thorough publications on the grammar of old occitan (also referred to as Provençal)〔Joan H. Levin (1989). (Review of Frede Jensen 'The Poetry of the Sicilian School' ) ''Speculum'', 64, pp 443-444. doi:10.2307/2851981.〕 and has been referred to endearingly as "the 'Grevisse' of old Occitan". Jensen is also considered an expert on Sicilian poetry.〔 His English translation and analysis of previously untranslated Sicilian poems has been honorably referred to as one of the codices optimi on the subject, dating from Dante forward.〔Rinaldina Russell, Spring 1989, "Reviews", ''Italica'' (American Association of Readers of Italian), Volume 66, no. 1, (page 57 )〕 An extraordinary linguist, Jensen was fluent in eight languages with a remarkable command of medieval/ancient Romance languages.〔 His publications include works on vulgar and classical Latin, old Italian, old Spanish, medieval Occitan, old French, and old Portuguese.〔(www.worldcat.org ), accessed 3/12/2013〕 == Life == Frede Jensen was born on February 17, 1926 to Hans Jensen and Jenny Kirstine Martinusen in Taarup, Auning county, in the Midtjylland region of Denmark. He spent his first years on a sizable family homestead and was raised by his two loving parents. Frede was the second of three children born to the Jensen family. The property was home to a lovely forest where oak, pine, and beech trees grew. These early surroundings were likely the mold where Frede's great sensibility to nature was formed. The great depression arrived with its share of sufferings and soon the family had to relocate to a smaller house in the nearby small village of Trojstrup. Frede lived there with his family until he graduated from the Randers Stattskole in 1945. When he was a young teenager, he loved collecting and drying flowers from the countryside. His collection later ended up in the hands of the Museum of the Botanical Garden of Copenhagen, which they still preserve today. In 1945, Jensen went to the University of Copenhagen and completed his undergraduate studies in 1949. Jensen then attended the Université de Grenoble in France on a scholarship where he received a degree in French grammar and Philology (Certificat de Grammaire et de Philologie Francaises) in 1950. While in Grenoble he joined a mountaineering club. For him it was the door opened to the undulating slopes of wild flowers, before setting his sights on higher summits later in his life. Jensen returned to Denmark to serve his mandatory 9-month military service from 1950 to 1951 where he served as a telex operator. Jensen then returned to the University of Copenhagen where he received his master's degree, with distinction, in 1953 in French with a minor in English. He spent the summer of 1953 studying at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain, then went on to attend the University of Salamanca, Spain where he received a Spanish Philology degree in 1955 (Diplomado de Filologia Hispánica). It was here that he met his future wife, whom he later wed in the United States in 1968. In 1956, Jensen moved to Los Angeles, California in the United States on a Fulbright grant and subsequently earned his Ph.D. from U.C.L.A. in 1961, in Romance Languages and Literatures with an emphasis in Philology (French, Spanish, and Italian). Over the next 6 years, Jensen held a number of teaching positions, first at the University of Calgary, Canada and then at U.C.L.A., before settling in Boulder, Colorado to take on a professorship position at the University of Colorado in 1967. Jensen was Professor of French at the University of Colorado at Boulder until his retirement on June 19, 1996.〔 Jensen was the recipient of numerous awards for scholarly achievements throughout his career. He also served as the President of the Centre de Guillaume IX, a center for research in Troubadour studies, and was a member of the editorial board of (Semasia ) (a romance philology publication).〔 He was also an avid mountaineer〔R. J. Secor, ''(The High Sierra: Peaks, Passes, Trails )'', The Mountaineers Books, 2009, p. 141〕 who summitted hundreds of peaks in Canada, Mexico, Morocco, Europe and the United States, and he climbed all fifty three of Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks within two summers. He continued to hike regularly up until his death in September 2008, in Boulder, Colorado, at the age of 82.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frede Jensen (philologist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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