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Place of Birth: Denmark
About Finn Thiesen
- Finn Vilhelm Thiesen (born August 4, 1941 in Kongens Lyngby near Copenhagen) is a Danish–Norwegian linguist, iranist and translator.
- He was an associate professor of Persian at the University of Oslo (Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages) until 2008.
- Thiesen was residing in Tehran, Iran, in the years 1977 to 1979 when he studied Persian literature at the University of Tehran.
- Thiesen speaks a dozen foreign languages fluently, including Persian, Hindi, Urdu, Turkish, English, German, and French, and is also a specialist in Ancient Greek, Middle Persian and Sanskrit.
- He is one of today's foremost experts in the Persian and poet Hafiz, and can recite the whole of his Diwan (poetry collection) by heart.
- Thiesen has written an introduction to the Norwegian edition I vinens speil, published in the series "Verdens hellige skrifter" (literally: World Holy Scriptures), 2010.
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