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Louis 
Trolle 
Hjelmslev
(Danish: 
[ˈjelˀmsle̝w]; 3 October 1899 – 30 May 1965) 
was a Danish linguist whose ideas formed the 
basis of the Copenhagen School of linguistics. 
Born into an academic family (his father was the 
mathematician Johannes Hjelmslev), Hjelmslev 
studied comparative linguistics in Copenhagen, 
Prague and Paris (with Antoine Meillet and 
Joseph Vendryes, among others). In 1931, he 
founded 
the 
Cercle 
Linguistique 
de 
Copenhague. Together with Hans Jørgen Uldall 
he developed a structuralist theory of language 
which he called glossematics, which further developed the semiotic 
theory of Ferdinand de Saussure.
Glossematics as a theory of language is characterized by a high 
degree of formalism. It is interested in describing the formal and 
semantic characteristics of language in separation from sociology, 
psychology or neurobiology, and has a high degree of logical rigour. 
Hjelmslev regarded linguistics — or glossematics — as a formal 
science. He was the inventor of formal linguistics. Hjelmslev's theory 

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became widely influential in structural and functional grammar, and in 
semiotics. 
The Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen was founded by Hjelmslev 
and a group of Danish colleagues on 24 September 1931. Their main 
inspiration was the Prague Linguistic Circle, which had been founded 
in 1926. It was, in the first place, a forum for discussion of theoretical 
and methodological problems in linguistics. Initially, their interest lay 
mainly in developing an alternative concept of the phoneme, but it later 
developed into a complete theory which was coined glossematics, and 
was notably influenced by structuralism. Membership of the group 
grew rapidly and a significant list of publications resulted, including an 
irregular series of larger works under the name Travaux du Cercle 
Linguistique de Copenhague. A Bulletin was produced, followed by an 
international journal for structuralistic research in language, Acta 
Linguistica (later called Acta Linguistica Hafniensia), which was 
founded with the members of the Prague Linguistic Circle. It was, at 
that time, the sole journal explicitly dedicated to structuralism. With 
one short break from 1934 to 1937, while he lectured at the university 
of Aarhus, Hjelmslev acted as chairman of the Circle until shortly 
before his death in 1965.