University of Minnesota Princeton
Hans Aarsleff went to which school from 1954 to 1960?
Hans Aarsleff Hans Christian Aarsleff ( born 19 July 1925 , Rungsted Kyst , Denmark ) is emeritus ( 1997 ) professor of English at Princeton University , and a renowned specialist in the history of linguistics , the history of ideas , and the history of philosophy of the 17th , 18th , and 19th centuries . Biography . After graduation from the gymnasium with distinction in 1943 , majoring in science and mathematics , he studied English language and literature at the University of Copenhagen . In 1948 he gained a scholarship for graduate study at the University of Minnesota , where he spent the next eight years until he came to Princeton in 1956 . His doctoral dissertation , “The Study of Language in England , 1780–1860” , was completed in 1960 . It was published by Princeton University Press in 1967 ( re-issued 1983 ) , and soon became a classic among historians of linguistics . He was a much sought-after guest speaker at many conferences and universities in and outside the United States . He stayed at Princeton , where he rose to the rank of full professor in 1972 , for the rest of his career . Academic work . Right from the start , Aarsleff’s work on the history of linguistics fanned out to cover the history of ideas , the history of philosophy , and the history of science , resulting in major essays on Leibniz , Locke , Condillac , Wilhelm von Humboldt , Descartes , and Herder . In 1982 , a selection of his essays was published under the title “From Locke to Saussure : Essays in the Study of Language and Intellectual History” , again a high profile publication in the field . Aarsleff also contributed a number of entries to Charles C . Gillispie’s “The Dictionary of Scientific Biography” , among which are major essays on John Wilkins and Thomas Sprat . In June 1991 , a special conference was held in honor of Hans Aarsleff at the Sorbonne in Paris . This resulted in a festschrift “La linguistique entre mythe et histoire” , edited by Daniel Droixhe and Chantal Grell ( Münster : Nodus , 1993 ) . Aarsleffs writings on Wilhelm von Humboldt caused controversy as they drew attention to the fact that Humboldt was heavily influenced by French philosophers and linguists , which was denied by established German scholarship . His writings on the French-Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure caused similar controversy , as he argued that Saussure’s central ideas were strongly influenced by the French 19th-century philosopher-critic Hippolyte Taine , which was denied by Saussure scholars , who have shown that the ideas which Aarsleff attributes to Taine can be traced to other sources about whom Saussure himself wrote , whereas there is not a single reference to Taine in his vast writings , published and unpublished . In 1970 , Aarsleff published an article “The history of linguistics and Professor Chomsky” in the high-profile linguistic periodical Language . This article drew much attention as it was an attack on Noam Chomskys much publicized work of the preceding years in the history of linguistics , contending that it was based on deficient and partisan scholarship . Although major specialists in the field were of the same opinion , the fierce and vilifying reactions by Chomsky and his followers made Aarsleff a controversial figure among Chomskyan theoretical linguists . Among his major publications are : - 1967 . “The Study of Language in England , 1780–1860.” Princeton : Princeton University Press . - 1970 . “The history of linguistics and Professor Chomsky.” Language 46 : 570–585 . - 1978 . “Taine and Saussure.” The Yale Review 68 : 71–81 . - 1982 . “From Locke to Saussure . Essays on the Study of Language and Intellectual History.” London : University of Minnesota Press . London : The Athlone Press . - 1988 . “Introduction to ‘On Language . Wilhelm von Humboldt : The Diversity of Human Language-Structure and its Influence on the Mental Development of Mankind’ , translated by Peter Heath with an introduction by Hans Aarsleff.” Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . - 2001 . “Etienne Bonnot de Condillac , ‘Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge’ , translated and edited by Hans Aarsleff , with an introduction.” Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . External links . - Hans Aarsleffs web page at Princeton University