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Finn Vilhelm Thiesen (born August 4, 1941, in
Kongens Lyngby Kongens Lyngby (, Danish for "the King's Heather Town"; short form Lyngby) is the seat and commercial centre of Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. Lyngby Hovedgade is a busy shopping street and the site ...
near
Copenhagen Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ...
) is a Danish-Norwegian linguist, iranist and translator. He was an associate professor of
Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
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 ...
(Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages) until 2008. Thiesen was residing in
Tehran Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran County), Central District. With a population of around 9. ...
, Iran, in the years 1977 to 1979 when he studied Persian literature at the
University of Tehran The University of Tehran (UT) or Tehran University (, ) is a public collegiate university in Iran, and the oldest and most prominent Iranian university located in Tehran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as ...
. Thiesen speaks a dozen foreign languages fluently, including Persian,
Hindi Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of India, official language of the Government ...
,
Urdu Urdu (; , , ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the Languages of Pakistan, national language and ''lingua franca'' of Pakistan. In India, it is an Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of Indi ...
, Turkish, English, German, and French, and is also a specialist in
Ancient Greek Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek ...
,
Middle Persian Middle Persian, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg ( Inscriptional Pahlavi script: , Manichaean script: , Avestan script: ) in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasania ...
and
Sanskrit Sanskrit (; stem form ; nominal singular , ,) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in northwest South Asia after its predecessor languages had Trans-cultural ...
. He is one of today's foremost experts in the Persian and poet Hafiz, and can recite the whole of his Diwan (poetry collection) by heart. Thiesen has written an introduction to the Norwegian edition ''I vinens speil'', published in the series "Verdens hellige skrifter" (literally: World Holy Scriptures), 2010.


Selected publications

* Eleven Etymologies, ''Languages of
Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...
: Past and Present'', Wiesbaden, 2006. * On the Meaning of the Terms and in Divan-e Hafez, Haptacahaptaitis ''Festschrift for
Fridrik Thordarson Fridrik Thordarson (1928 – 2 October 2005) was an Icelanders, Icelandic linguist. Thordarson was born in Iceland, and studied Classical philology in Oslo. In 1963 he took exams with Latin as his major and Greek and Indian philology as his mi ...
on the occasion of his 77th birthday'', Oslo, 2005. * Un texte intraduisible, le cas
Hafez (), known by his pen name Hafez ( or 'the keeper'; 1325–1390) or Hafiz, “Ḥāfeẓ” designates someoone who has learned the Qurʾān by heart" also known by his nickname Lisan al-Ghaib ('the tongue of the unseen'), was a Persian lyri ...
, ''Forum–Presses De La Sorbonne Nouvelle & Korean Society of Conference Interpretation'', 2004, 2: 2. * , , Oslo, 2003. * Pseudo-Hafez: A reading of Wilberforce-Clarke's rendering of Divan-e Hafez, ''Orientalia Suecana'', 2003, LI-LII. * ''A Manual of Classical Persian Prosody (with chapters on Urdu, Karakhanidic, and Ottoman prosody)'', Belgium, Wiesbaden, 1982.


See also

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Iranian studies Iranian studies ( '), also referred to as Iranology and Iranistics, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the research and study of the civilization, history, literature, art and culture of Iranian peoples. It is a part of the wider field ...
*
Persian language Persian ( ), also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Farsi (, Fārsī ), is a Western Iranian languages, Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian subdivision ...
*
Hafez (), known by his pen name Hafez ( or 'the keeper'; 1325–1390) or Hafiz, “Ḥāfeẓ” designates someoone who has learned the Qurʾān by heart" also known by his nickname Lisan al-Ghaib ('the tongue of the unseen'), was a Persian lyri ...


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Thiesen, Finn 1941 births Living people People from Kongens Lyngby University of Tehran alumni Iranologists Academic staff of the University of Oslo Danish expatriates in Norway Danish academics