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Daniel Scholten (born 1973) is a German writer specialising in Scandinavian languages as well as ancient languages. He hosts the video-podcast series Belles Lettres on German linguistics.
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Daniel Scholten (born 1973) is a German writer specialising in Scandinavian languages as well as ancient languages. He hosts the video-podcast series Belles Lettres on German linguistics.
Upon graduating from school and completing an apprenticeship, Scholten worked in Scandinavia for several years as a typographer. After this, Scholten studied at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München, with majors in Egyptology and historical linguistics, specialising in the language and literature of ancient Egypt.
Beyond this, Scholten has also been involved with Scandinavian literature (primarily in Icelandic and Swedish) and published two literature journals.
In 2007, Scholten began writing crime novels under the title Kommissar Cederström.
Scholten founded the video-podcast series Belles Lettres in 2010 [1] which focuses on linguistics and stylistics.
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