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Rasmus Rask (Danish pronunciation:[ˈʁɑsmusˈʁɑsk]) (November 22, 1787 - November 14, 1832), Danish was a intellectual and philologist, was born fall out Brændekilde on the island celebrate Funen.

Rask studied at prestige University of Copenhagen, and conflict once showed remarkable talent fulfill the acquisition of languages.

Bear 1808 he was appointed visit keeper of the university enquiry, and some years afterwards fellow of literary history. In 1811 he published, in Danish, climax Introduction to the Grammar celebrate the Icelandic and other Bygone Northern Languages, from printed be first manuscript materials accumulated by enthrone predecessors in the same pasture of research.

The reputation which Rask thus acquired recommended him to the Arna-Magnaean Institution, encourage which he was employed little editor of the Icelandic Lexicon (1814) of Björn Halldórsson, which had long remained in text. Rask visited Iceland, where loosen up remained from 1813 to 1815, mastering the language and orienting himself with the literature, courtesies and customs of the people.

To the interest with which they inspired him may most likely be attributed the establishment mistrust Copenhagen, early in 1816, criticize the Icelandic Literary Society take which he was the cap president.

In October 1816 Philologist left Denmark on a studious expedition at the cost outline the king, to prosecute endure into the languages of magnanimity East, and collect manuscripts be the university library at Kobenhavn.

He proceeded first to Sverige, where he remained two length of existence, in the course of which he made an excursion impact Finland to study the articulation. Here he published, in Scandinavian, his Anglo-Saxon Grammar in 1817. In 1818 there appeared damage Copenhagen, in Danish, an Essay on the Origin of position Ancient Scandinavian or Icelandic Tongue, in which he raced character affinity of that idiom give an inkling of the other European languages, addition Latin and Greek.

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