20th century · 1899–1965
Who influenced Louis Hjelmslev?
Influences and legacy
Glossematics: language as pure form, the engine of high structuralism.
Louis Hjelmslev was influenced by Roman Jakobson, and went on to influence Algirdas Julien Greimas and Umberto Eco. That is 3 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Who was Louis Hjelmslev?
Louis Hjelmslev, a Danish linguist and son of the mathematician Johannes Hjelmslev, studied in Copenhagen, Prague and Paris and in 1931 founded the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen, the base of the Copenhagen School.
With Hans Jørgen Uldall he developed glossematics, a highly formal structuralist theory of language that extended Saussure's semiotics and treated linguistics as a formal science. It influenced structural and functional grammar and semiotics.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Louis Hjelmslev?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Roman Jakobson 1896–1982
Who did Louis Hjelmslev influence?
2 thinkers on this map draw directly on Louis Hjelmslev.
- Algirdas Julien Greimas 1917–1992
- Umberto Eco 1932–2016
The line of teachers behind Louis Hjelmslev
The longest documented line of influence ending at Louis Hjelmslev runs 2 generations back, to Ferdinand de Saussure.
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Roman Jakobson
- Louis Hjelmslev
Two steps away from Louis Hjelmslev
Indirect influences
- Through Roman Jakobson: Ferdinand de Saussure
Contemporaries of Louis Hjelmslev
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Louis Hjelmslev, with no direct line between them.
- Alfred Schutz 1899–1959
- Erich Fromm 1900–1980
- Herbert Marcuse 1898–1979
- Hans-Georg Gadamer 1900–2002
- Gilbert Ryle 1900–1976
- Jacques Lacan 1901–1981
- Karl Popper 1902–1994
- Émile Benveniste 1902–1976
Louis Hjelmslev by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 2
- Thinkers upstream
- 2
- Thinkers downstream
- 2
- Wikipedia languages
- 30 — #73 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Schools and lineages
Questions about Louis Hjelmslev
- Who influenced Louis Hjelmslev?
- Roman Jakobson.
- Who did Louis Hjelmslev influence?
- Algirdas Julien Greimas and Umberto Eco.
- When did Louis Hjelmslev live?
- 1899–1965. The map files Louis Hjelmslev under the 20th century.
- How rare is the Louis Hjelmslev card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Louis Hjelmslev in 30 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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