Jan Pinborg


Jan Pinborg was a renowned historian of medieval linguistics and philosophy of language, and the most famous member of the Copenhagen School of Medieval Philosophy pioneered by Heinrich Roos in the 1940s. 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, Stuttgart, Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 1972. Medieval Semantics: Selected Studies on Medieval Logic and Grammar, edited by Sten Ebbesen, London: Variorum Reprints, 1984.
He was a co-editor, along with Norman Kretzmann and Anthony Kenny, of The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy.