Editing Rasmus Rask (section)

==Return to Denmark==
[[File:Kbh_Rasmus_Rask_1.jpg|thumb|200px|Rasmus Rask's grave at [[Assistens Cemetery (Copenhagen)|Assistens Cemetery]], Copenhagen. Inscriptions in Danish, Arabic<!--The Arabic inscription reads: الحق أبلج والباطل لجلج-->   , Icelandic written in runes and Sanskrit. The  Arabic text means: "Right is clear and falsehood is stammering." The Danish text means: "Our fatherland we owe all we can accomplish." The Icelandic runic text means: "If you wish to become perfect in knowledge, you must learn all the languages, and yet, do not neglect your native tongue or speech." The Sanskrit text means: "There is no friend greater than industry. He who does not work withers."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://rasmusraskskolen.aula.dk/vores-skole/sprogforskeren-rasmus-rask | title=Sprogforskeren Rasmus Rask &#124; rasmusraskskolen }}</ref>]]

Rask returned to Copenhagen in May 1823, bringing a considerable number of manuscripts in Persian, Zend, [[Pali]] and [[Sinhala language|Sinhala]] for Copenhagen libraries. In 1825, he was appointed a professor of literary history, and in 1829, and as a librarian at the University of Copenhagen. In 1831, just a year before his death, he was appointed professor of Eastern languages at the University of Copenhagen.<ref name="Nielsen" /><ref name="Leksikon" />

After his return to Denmark, Rask published ''Spanish Grammar'' (1824), ''Frisian Grammar'' (1825), ''Essay on Danish Orthography'' (1826), ''Treatise respecting the Ancient Egyptian Chronology'' (1827), ''Italian Grammar'' (1827), and ''Ancient Jewish Chronology previous to Moses'' (1828). He also published ''A Grammar of the Danish Language for the use of Englishmen'' (1830) and oversaw [[Benjamin Thorpe]]'s English translation of his ''A Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Tongue'' (1830).