Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen (born December 18, 1942)Kürschner, Wilfried. 1997. ''Linguisten-Handbuch''. Tübingen: Narr, p. 214. is a Danish-born Norwegian

Germanist German studies is an academic field that researches, documents and disseminates German language, German literature, literature, and culture in its historic and present forms. Academic departments of German studies therefore often focus on Culture ...

. She is a professor of German studies at the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo (; ) is a public university, public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation#Europe, oldest university in Norway. Originally named the Royal Frederick Univ ...

; she originally taught in the Department of Germanic Studies, which is now part of the merged Department of Literature, Area Studies, and European Languages. Fabricius Hansen was born in

Holstebro Holstebro is the main town in Holstebro Municipality, Denmark. The town, bisected by Storå, Denmark, ''Storåen'' ("The Large Creek") and has a population of 37,487 (1 January 2025).Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...

.Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München: Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen erhält LMU-Ehrendoktorwürde. 2007.
She received a master's degree in general linguistics in Copenhagen in 1969 and worked as a lecturer and research fellow at the

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen (, KU) is a public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, after Uppsala University. ...

's Department of Germanic Philology from 1969 to 1975. She joined the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Oslo in 1975 and was made a professor in 1986. She received her doctorate in 1987. Among other positions, she has served as chair of the Department of Germanic Studies, vice-dean of the Faculty of Arts, and a member of the university senate. She became a member of the

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in 1993 and the

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in 1994.''Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab, forhandlinger''. 1996. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, p. 179. She has also held a number of other national and international positions. Fabricius Hansen was awarded the University of Copenhagen gold medal in 1966. In 2000 she received the Fridtjof Nansen Award of Excellence, in 2002 the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize, and in 2003 the Konrad Duden Prize. She received an

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from the University of Munich in 2007. She is currently involved in revising the fourth volume of the Duden German grammar.

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University of Oslo homepage for Cathrine Fabricius Hansen
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