Aage Jørgensen (born 5 June 1938,[1] died 25 March 2023[2]) was a Danish literary historian and author.
He was employed at Aarhus University from 1967 to 1975, first as a graduate fellow and assistant professor, then as a substitute lecturer.
[3] From 1994 to 2013, he was a member of the steering committee for Johannes V. Jensen Forum at Aarhus University.
[4][3] Aage Jørgensen published a number of writings (monographs, collected works, bibliographies) on Hans Christian Andersen, Karen Blixen, Søren Kierkegaard, Adam Oehlenschläger among others, and received awards including the Danish Writers Association's Hans Christian Andersen Scholarship in 1999 and the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2008.
[5][6] Aage Jørgensen's 2009 book, Nærved og næsten, describes a number of Danish writers and other authors who were considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature.