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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.

Background

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.

Scholte has lived since 2012 in Stockholm and Munich.

Selection of works

As author

Novels
  1. Der zweite Tod. Ein Fall um Kommissar Cederström. Goldmann, München 2007, ISBN 978-3-442-46402-9
  2. Die falsche Tote. Ein Fall für Kommissar Cederström. Goldmann, München 2008, ISBN 978-3-442-46466-1
  3. Der kopflose Engel. Ein Fall für Kommissar Cederström. Goldmann, München 2008, ISBN 978-3-442-46467-8
  4. Der Name der Dunkelheit. Ein Fall für Kommissar Cederström. Goldmann, München 2009, ISBN 978-3-442-46468-5
Scientific literature

As editor

References

  1. ^ Daniel Scholten. "Belles Lettres Impressum" (in German). Belles Lettres. Retrieved 2013-03-18.
  2. ^ Daniel Scholten (2001). Paradigmenfinder zur isländischen Grammatik: alle Flexionsformen schnell bestimmt (in German). Philyra-Verlag. ISBN 3935267010 – via Google Books.