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Holger Pedersen (linguist)

Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist and academic (died 1953)

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Born
April 7, 1867
Died
October 25, 1953
Zodiac sign
Aries
Birth year
1867

About Holger Pedersen (linguist)

Holger Pedersen was a Danish linguist who made significant contributions to language science and wrote about thirty authoritative works concerning several languages. He was born in Gelballe, Denmark, and died in Hellerup, next to Copenhagen. He is also known for the description of Pedersen's Law, a type of accentual shift occurring in Baltic and Slavic languages (1933a). Pedersen seems to have first used the term "Nostratic" in an article on Turkish phonology published in 1903.

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The world when Holger Pedersen (linguist) was born

Holger Pedersen (linguist) was born in 1867. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineUS purchases Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million
  • Technology milestoneDynamite patented by Alfred Nobel
  • Notable inventionDynamite
  • World population~1.47B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderAndrew Johnson
  • U.S. population34.5M

1867 versus 2026

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Measure18672026
Population34.5M341 million

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