# Jan Pinborg

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'''Jan Pinborg''' (1937–1982) was a renowned [historian](/source/historian) of medieval [linguistics](/source/linguistics) and [philosophy of language](/source/philosophy_of_language), and the most famous member of the Copenhagen School of Medieval Philosophy pioneered by Heinrich Roos in the 1940s.<ref>Sten Ebbesen and Russell L. Friedman (1999), eds., ''Medieval Analyses in Language and Cognition''  Acts of the Symposium, the Copenhagen School of [Medieval Philosophy](/source/Medieval_philosophy), January 10–13, 1996, Organized by the [Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters](/source/Royal_Danish_Academy_of_Sciences_and_Letters), and the Institute for Greek and Latin, [University of Copenhagen](/source/University_of_Copenhagen), p 77.</ref>  Pinborg was a pupil of Roos.  

==Works==
* ''Die Entwicklung der Sprachtheorie im Mittelalter'', Münster: Aschendorff, 1967.
* ''Logik und Semantik im Mittelalter: ein Überblick'', with an afterword by von [Helmut Kohlenberger](/source/Helmut_Kohlenberger), Stuttgart, Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 1972. (Italian translation: ''Logica e Semantica nel Medioevo'', Torino: Boringhieri, 1984.)
* ''Medieval Semantics: Selected Studies on Medieval Logic and Grammar'', edited by Sten Ebbesen, London: Variorum Reprints, 1984.
* Jan Pinborg (ed.), ''The Logic of [John Buridan](/source/John_Buridan):  Acts of the 3rd European Symposium on Medieval Logic and Semantics, Copenhagen, 16-21 November 1975'', Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum, 1976.

He was a co-editor, along with [Norman Kretzmann](/source/Norman_Kretzmann) and [Anthony Kenny](/source/Anthony_Kenny), of ''The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy'' (1982).

==Notes==
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==Sources and further reading==
* Norman Kretzmann, Anthony Kenny, and Jan Pinborg, (eds), with Eleanor Stump, associate editor. ''The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy:  From the Rediscovery of [Aristotle](/source/Aristotle) to the Disintegration of Scholasticism, 1100-1600'', New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
* Norman Kretzmann (ed.). ''Meaning and Inference in Medieval Philosophy:  Studies in Memory of Jan Pinborg'', Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1988.
* G. L. Bursill-Hall, Sten Ebbesen, and Konrad Koerner (eds.). ''De Ortu Grammaticae: Studies in Medieval Grammar and Linguistic Theory in Honor of Jan Pinborg'', Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1990.

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