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Jan Leon Katlev (†2013)

Jan Leon Katlev (†2013) Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 2015 Vol. 47, No. 1, 1–3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2015.1031473 MEMORIAL Jan Leon Katlev, born in 1944, died on November 13, 2013. He was a Danish linguist and member of the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen. We members of the Circle remember him as a devoted participant in our discussions, able to draw on vast amounts of linguistic knowledge, historical and geographical. No wonder etymology and lexicography became favourite and important fields for him. For a while, during the first years of our millennium, while Jan was working as a lexicographer and took the initiative to the large Danish Etymologisk ordbog (Etymological Dictionary; Katlev 2000), he doubled as a linguistic agony aunt in the Copenhagen daily POLITIKEN. On Saturday, the 8th of June 2002, Jan wrote in the “Language Corner” (Sproghjørnet) of POLITIKEN about the etymology of the Danish word espressokaffe “espresso coffee”. At that time, several etymologies were offered in different dictionaries and encyclopedias, both in Denmark and elsewhere. Volume 6 of the Danish national encyclopedia, Den store danske Encyklopædi,of 1996 gives the “original” meaning of espresso as “coffee which is pressed forth (very fast, express)”, thus associating the word both with the method by which espresso is produced http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Taylor & Francis

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Jan Leon Katlev (†2013)

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Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 2015 Vol. 47, No. 1, 1–3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2015.1031473 MEMORIAL Jan Leon Katlev, born in 1944, died on November 13, 2013. He was a Danish linguist and member of the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen. We members of the Circle remember him as a devoted participant in our discussions, able to draw on vast amounts of linguistic knowledge, historical and geographical. No wonder etymology and lexicography became favourite and important...
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Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 2015 Vol. 47, No. 1, 1–3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2015.1031473 MEMORIAL Jan Leon Katlev, born in 1944, died on November 13, 2013. He was a Danish linguist and member of the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen. We members of the Circle remember him as a devoted participant in our discussions, able to draw on vast amounts of linguistic knowledge, historical and geographical. No wonder etymology and lexicography became favourite and important fields for him. For a while, during the first years of our millennium, while Jan was working as a lexicographer and took the initiative to the large Danish Etymologisk ordbog (Etymological Dictionary; Katlev 2000), he doubled as a linguistic agony aunt in the Copenhagen daily POLITIKEN. On Saturday, the 8th of June 2002, Jan wrote in the “Language Corner” (Sproghjørnet) of POLITIKEN about the etymology of the Danish word espressokaffe “espresso coffee”. At that time, several etymologies were offered in different dictionaries and encyclopedias, both in Denmark and elsewhere. Volume 6 of the Danish national encyclopedia, Den store danske Encyklopædi,of 1996 gives the “original” meaning of espresso as “coffee which is pressed forth (very fast, express)”, thus associating the word both with the method by which espresso is produced

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