Paul Hans Christopherson

Paul Hans Christopherson

Prof. Paul Hans Christopherson MA Dr Phil PhD
Born	1911
Died	1999
Residence	20 Belsize Crescent, NW3; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge [census] University College of West Africa, Ibadan, Nigeria, West Africa [1949] The British Institute, Fritzners Gate 12, Oslo, Norway [1955]
Occupation	philologist
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1948.01.06 Resigned elected_AI 1943.11.16

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1943.11.16 nominated and elected forthwith

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During World War II, he stayed in England, 1939-42 on studying in Cambridge, 1942-44 as a speaker and translator at the BBC and 1944-46 as research engineer at The Royal Institute of International Affairs. In 1943, he obtained his doctorate from Cambridge; In addition he held lectures and studied in Danish at Cambridge University during most of the war as well as being a member of various councils and organizations, among other things. Under the UN. 1946-48 he was Professor of English Language and Literature at Kbh's University, then 1948-54 Professor in Ibadan, Nigeria and 1954-68 Professor of English Philology at Oslo University, interrupted by one year's guest professorship at Emory University, Atlanta , 1965-66. In 1956 he became a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences in Oslo. 1969-74 he was a lecturer at the New University of Ulster, Coleraine, Ireland, 1974-77 Professor, 1977-81, he was a professor at the University of Qatar, Doha, Arabia.
The centerpiece of Paul Christophersen's scientific production is in English language. At the end of the thirties he was an employee of Otto Jespersen's Modern English Grammar VI. In his dissertation from 1939 The Articles. A Study of Their Theory and Use in English he treated with extraordinary skills a central and difficult area of ​​English grammar. In the accession lecture Bilingualism, in 1949, he discussed the situation of the twisted-tale, and in another accession lecture, Some Thoughts on the Study of English as a Foreign Language, 1957, he explained his thoughts on the content of an English study . Still, Paul Christophersen wrote textbooks that, like his other production, are characterized by clarity and rigor. In Second-Language Learning, 1973, he demonstrated his intrusive understanding of the problems encountered by the one who will acquire a foreign language. Although the majority of Paul Christophersen's production falls within the linguistic area, it must be added that, with the book The Ballad of Sir Aldings, 1952, he made an important contribution to public research. In this work, a British folklore is shown to be at least the partial source of a number of Scandinavian shows with related motives.

Parents: telephone installer Anders Frederik C. (1877-1924) and Johanne Marie Rasmine Jensen (1881-1950). Married 1.8.1950 in Beckenham, Kent, England with Margaret Travers, born 19.7.1921 in Madras, India, d. By Captain Cyril T. (1890-1974) and Dorothy May Homer (1900-84).

Publications

External Publications

An advanced English grammar

Second-language learning; myth and reality

The ballad of Sir Aldingar, its origin and analogues

The articles : a study of their theory and use in English

An English phonetics course

Bilingualism : an inaugural lecture delivered on Foundation Day, November 17th, 1948

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