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Jacob Baden


Jacob Baden (4 May 1735 – 5 July 1804), was a Danish philologist, pedagogue, and critic. He was professor of rhetoric and the Latin language at University of Copenhagen in 1779. He was the first person to lecture on Danish grammar at the university between 1782 and 1783,He was the editor of the "University Journal" from 1793 to 1801.

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He published a Danish grammar, Latin grammar, and also wrote an elementary Greek grammar in 1764. He produced Danish grammar in German language in 1767. His Danish grammar is well recognized till today.

Early life

He was born at Vordingborg on 4 May 1735. He studied at University of Göttingen and University of Leipzig. He married Charlotte Baden, a Danish writer in 1763. He died on 5 July 1804.

Works

  • Forelæsninger over det danske Sprog, eller resonneret dansk Grammatik (Lectures on Danish Language or Rational Danish Grammar) published in 1785. They contain treatments of Phonology and Morphology, syntax and Prosody.
  • Danish grammar in German in 1767.
  • Latin grammar.
  • Danish grammar.
  • Greek grammar.
  • School editions of Virgil, Horace, and Phaedrus.

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