Jens Elmegård Rasmussen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Denmark
About Jens Elmegård Rasmussen
- Jens Elmegård Rasmussen (15 March 1944 – 15 May 2013) was associate professor of Indo-European Studies and head of the Roots of Europe research center at the University of Copenhagen from its initiation in 2008 until his death.
- He was an expert on Proto-Indo-European and Indo-European languages in general, especially morphophonemics, but he also published articles on the history of Eskimo–Aleut languages and linguistic diachrony.
- He supported the Indo-Uralic and Eurasiatic hypotheses. Elmegård Rasmussen was the leading editor of the international scholarly journal Tocharian and Indo-European Studies (TIES) and chief editor of the book series Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European.
- He was married to the Danish Indo-Europeanist Birgit Anette Olsen.
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