Linguistic pedagogy specialist that revolutionizes language learning through direct immersive methods and systematic grammar analysis.
Born in Randers, he became professor of English language and literature at Copenhagen University (1893-1925), and revolution- ized the teaching of languages. In 1904 his Sprogundervisning was published in English as How to Teach a Foreign Language, and became perhaps the best-known statement of what is now called the ‘Direct Method’ reform. His other books include Progress in Language (1894), Growth and Structure of …