Aage Jørgensen (5 June 1938 – 25 March 2023Obituary for Aage Jørgensen Per Dahl at jensenmuseet.dk March 2023 retrieved 31 December 2023) 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. From 1978 to 1988, he represented the Ministry of Education in the Danish Language Council. 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.Member base — DSL – Danish Society for Language and Literature
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.
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.
Bibliography The following publications can be mentioned:See the festschrift Alt skal med (1998), which includes a bibliography pp. 176–212
Oehlenschläger-litteraturen 1850–1966 (1966) Kundskaben på ondt og godt (1968) Folkevisesproget (1969) H.C. Andersen-litteraturen 1875–1968 (1970) Omkredsninger. Artikler og anmeldelser (1974) Dansk litteraturhistorisk bibliografi 1967–1986 (1989) Idyll and Abyss. Essays on Danish Literature and Theater (1992) H.C. Andersen-litteraturen 1969–1994 (1995) Litteratur om Johannes V. Jensen (1998; supplement and continuation 2005) Bøgens Fædreland – og andre guldalderstudier (1999) Selvbibliografi (2000) H.C. Andersen-litteraturen 1995–2006 (2007) Søren Kierkegaard 1956–2006. A Bibliography (2009) Nærved og næsten. Danske Nobelpristabere fra Brandes til Blixen – en dokumentation (2009) Oehlenschläger-litteraturen 1850–2014 (2015) Dansk litteraturforskning i det 21. århundrede. Dansk litteraturhistorisk bibliografi 2000–2014 (2015) Jens Peter Jacobsen bibliografi. Litteraturhenvisninger 1967–2015 (2016) Karen Blixens udeblevne Nobelpris og andre præciseringer (2017) "Litteratur om Karen Blixen. En bibliografi" (2020) Modernitetens problematiske velsignelse og andre H.C. Andersen'ske præciseringer (2020)
About and by Johannes V. Jensen Publications of Johannes V. Jensen's works
Editor and afterword writer together with Per Dahl. Afterword Editor and afterword.
Books with literary historical articles
Books with collections of own contributions
Journal articles
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