Frede Jensen (February 17, 1926 – September 13, 2008) was a 20th-century, Danish-born Romance philologist, author, and professor of French.

Author of 17 books and over 60 articles, he was widely respected by the Romance philology community and recognized as an expert in the field.

[2] His English translation and analysis of previously untranslated Sicilian poems have been honorably referred to as one of the codices optimi on the subject, dating from Dante forward.

[1] His publications include works on vulgar and classical Latin, old Italian, old Spanish, medieval Occitan, old French, and old Portuguese.

He spent his first years in a sizable family homestead and was raised by his two loving parents.

The property was home to a lovely forest where oak, pine, and beech trees grew.

These early surroundings were likely the mold from where Frede's great sensibility to nature was formed.

The Great Depression arrived with its share of sufferings and soon the family had to relocate to a smaller house in the nearby small village of Trojstrup.

His collection later ended up in the hands of the Museum of the Botanical Garden of Copenhagen, where they are still preserved today.

For him it was the door that opened to the undulating slopes of wildflowers, before setting his sights on higher summits later in his life.

Jensen then returned to the University of Copenhagen where he received his master's degree, with distinction, in 1953 in French with a minor in English.

He spent the summer of 1953 studying at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain, then went on to attend the University of Salamanca, Spain where he received a Spanish philology degree in 1955 (Diplomado de Filologia Hispánica).

In 1956, Jensen moved to Los Angeles, California in the United States on a Fulbright grant and subsequently earned his PhD from U.C.L.A.

in 1961, in Romance languages and Literatures with an emphasis in philology (French, Spanish, and Italian).

Jensen was Professor of French at the University of Colorado at Boulder until his retirement on June 19, 1996.

He also served as the President of the Centre de Guillaume IX, a center for research in Troubadour studies, and was a member of the editorial board of Semasia (a romance philology publication).

He continued to hike regularly up until his death in September 2008, in Boulder, Colorado, at the age of 82.

Odense University Press, Études romanes de l'Université d'Odense, Vol.

Odense University Press, Études romanes de l'Université d'Odense, Vol.

Odense University Press, Études romanes de l'Université d'Odense, Vol.

Tübingen/West Germany: Max Niemeyer Verlag, Beihefte zur Zeitschirft für romanische Philologie, Vol.

Tübingen/West Germany: Max Niemeyer Verlag, Beihefte zur Zeitschirft für romanische Philologie, Vol.

Tübingen/West Germany: Max Niemeyer Verlag, Beihefte zur Zeitschift für romanische Philologie, Vol.