Erik Thau-Knudsen

The author of www.thau-knudsen.dk

Hi, I am Erik Thau-Knudsen, the author of the web page you probably were viewing right before this one. Until now, all the 600+ pages on http://www.thau-knudsen.dk/ have me as the sole author.

I am 47 years old, born in Copenhagen, Denmark. I am a graduate of Balkan linguistics and Bulgarian, later added up with studies of journalism, Portuguese, and linguistics and a couple of other things I can't remember just now. Most of my knowledge about web technologies stems from self-studies. CV

Professionally, I am currently between jobs. I am trying to set up a translator's business, but things go a bit slow for the time being.

Through 2006, I was connected to the Danish publishing house Gyldendal as a co-author of the Big Danish Encyclopedia, writing about languages and linguistics for the on-line version and the DVD version. Gyldendal.

It cannot make a living for me, so I am still looking out for some more work.

This site was set up in the end of 2000 - beginning of 2001. I used Netscape 4.5 for writing the web pages. Currently, the pages are in XHTML, and around two thirds are in XHTML 1.1. The basic concepts about the design were developed in 2005 but is constantly prone to improvements.

I live in an old flat in the centre of Silkeborg, a town located in central Jutland, in what was once a barren heather landscape. As a result of 200+ years of re-forestation, Silkeborg now lies amidst the biggest forests of Denmark. When you add to this that the highest concentration of lakes, sources and riverlets of this northern European country is found here, you have a good idea of how wonderful it can be here. I share this life with my fiancee Lone with whom I have two wonderful children. Silkeborg.dk

Erik Thau-Knudsen, 2007-08-24