Famous People with Name Jens

Jens Madsen Hajslund            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Jens Madsen Hajslund: was a Danish sport shooter who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.In 1912 he won the bronze medal as member of the Danish team in the team free rifle competition. In the team miliatry rifle event he finished eighth.

Jens Christian Grøndahl            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Jens Christian Grøndahl: is a Danish writer.His novel An Altered Light was shortlisted for the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Jens Wilken Hornemann            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Jens Wilken Hornemann: was a Danish botanist. He was a lecturer at the University of Copenhagen Botanical Garden from 1801. After the death of Martin Vahl in 1804, the task of publishing the Flora Danica was given to Hornemann, who subsequently issued fasc. 22-39 (1801-1840) with a total of 1080 plates. J.W. Hornemann was professor of botany at the University of Copenhagen from 1808 and director of the Botanic Garden (from 1817). In 1815, he was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and in 1816, his status was changed to that of foreign member.

Jens Elmegård Rasmussen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Jens Elmegård Rasmussen: is associate professor of Indo-European Studies and head of the Roots of Europe research center at the University of Copenhagen.[1] He is an expert on Proto-Indo-European and Indo-European languages in general, especially morphophonemics, but he has also published articles on the history of Eskimo-Aleut languages and linguistic diachrony. He supports the Indo-Uralic and Eurasiatic hypotheses.

Jens Christian Svabo            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Jens Christian Svabo: was a pioneering Faroese linguist, scholar, and ethnographer. Svabo was born in Miðvágur, Vágar, the Faroe Islands to a minister and his wife. Svabo studied history, music, and theology in Miðvágur and later in Tórshavn. Between 1765 and 1800 he lived in Denmark and studied music there, especially the violin. In 1800, he returned to Tórshavn and lived in a house known as the Pætursarstovu: it was in the attic of this home that in 1928 a book of songs written by Svabo was found. This manuscript is now part of the collection of the Føroya Landsbókasavn (Faroese National Library).