By the director of communications, MA Niels Jørgen Langkilde, Hans Christian Andersen Institute, Sandholts Lyndelse & Marília, São Paulo, Brazil

 

Aage Jørgensen was born on 5 June, 1938 and died on 25 March, 2023. With Aage Jørgensen's death, we have lost an extremely diligent, important, and helpful literary researcher. Aage Jørgensen had  his academic degrees at Aarhus University, where he was also employed from 1967 to 1975, first as a graduate student and university assistant professor, later as a substitute lecturer. Between 1975 and 2002 he was a lecturer at Langkær Gymnasium. Between  1978 till 1988 he represented the Ministry of Education in the Danish Language Board. From 1994 till 2013 he was a member of the steering group for the Nobel laureate Johannes V. Jensen at Aarhus University. In 2005, he became a member of the Danish Language and Literature Society.

 

Although Johannes V. Jensen, Karen Blixen, Søren Kierkegaard and Adam Oehlenschläger filled the authorship, all Andersen researchers will first of all remember him for a number of excellent works about Hans Christian Andersen and especially his bibliographies, where no one like Aage Jørgensen could find the most special works and articles about Hans Christian Andersen in countries all over the world. Everyone who works with Hans Christian Andersen knows and uses his works to this day. The works are characterized by care, orderliness, and precision - just like Aage Jørgensen himself.

He has carefully compiled countless bibliographies. One of the latest was about the poet-priest Kaj Munk for the Kaj Munk Research Center at Aalborg University: https://www.kajmunk.aau.dk/om-munk/bibliografier/aage-joergensens-bibliografi/

 

Many have appreciated Aage Jørgensen over time: the Danish Authors' Association's H. C. Andersen grant in 1999 and the Hans Christian Andersen Award "Mit Livs Eventyr" in 2008. Aage Jørgensen was a diligent participant in the celebration of H. C. Andersen in Odense on 2nd of April, and here you could clearly see how well connected and how well-mannered he was among Hans Christian Andersen's living friends.

Aage Jørgensen's approx. 20 books and approx. 50 scientific articles will remain and will also be used in the future. But now we can no longer call and write to him, to get a sort of helping through short or long talkings from Maarslet.

Honored be the memory of Aage Jørgensen.

The funeral took place from Mårslet Church, Saturday 1 April at 13. Afterwards, people gather for a memorial service in the adjacent parish church, where everyone is very welcome - in the spirit of Aage Jørgensen

Author:
Niels Jørgen Langkilde Illustration:
Birgitte Blomgren Fonte:
https://institutohcandersen.com/ Contributions:
Niels Jørgen Langkilde Ana Maria Costa Langkilde

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