Frede Jensen

The Editor and Translator: Frede Jensen received his education in Europe (Copenhagen, Grenoble, Salamanca) and in the United States (Ph.D., UCLA, 1961). He taught at UCLA and the universities of Calgary and Colorado. Among his numerous book-length writings are The Old Provençal Noun and Adjective Declension (1976); The Syntax of Medieval Occitan (1986); Old French and Comparative Gallo-Romance Syntax (1990); Syntaxe de l'ancien occitan (1994). Other books explore Sicilian, Galician-Portuguese, and Tuscan poetry of the Middle Ages.