Louis Hjelmslev and Eli Fischer-Jørgensen

Eli Fischer-Jørgensen (1911-2010) was with great certainty one of Hjelmslev’s most important partners to have discussions with. With a background as a professor in Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen, Fischer-Jørgensen was a central figure in the discussions, even though she never saw herself as a glossematician.

She was a student of L. L. Hammerich (1892-1975) who was a professor in German, and in many ways, she continued using his practical-analytical approach on language. She has been characterized as the person who could make Hjelmslev quite content and enormously frustrated due to her critical fashion of challenging his academic work and reflections.