Niels Åge Nielsen


Niels Aage Anton Nielsen was a Danish professor of Nordic languages at Aarhus University. He was also a leader in the Danish resistance movement.

Life and career

Nielsen was the son of master carpenter Niels Nielsen and his wife Ella Kirstine Rasmussen .
He took his high school diploma at Marselisborg Gymnasium in 1933, and in 1942 he obtained a master's degree in arts from Aarhus University. Later, he held various teaching positions at the same university, until he became a professor of Nordic languages at Odense University in 1966. However, he returned to his former university in 1972.
He mostly devoted his attention to studying Danish dialects, especially the different dialects in Jutland and the history of the Danish language.
Niels Aage Nielsen was also a high-ranking communist member of the Danish resistance movement during the German occupation of Denmark.

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