Jens Elmegård Rasmussen

{{Short description|Danish linguist (1944–2013)}}

Jens Elmegård Rasmussen (15 March 1944 – 15 May 2013) was a Danish linguist who served as associate professor of Indo-European Studies and head of the Roots of Europe research center at the University of Copenhagen from its initiation in 2008 until his death.{{Cite web |date= |title=University of Copenhagen |url=http://rootsofeurope.ku.dk/english/staff/profile/?id=82238 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225172329/https://rootsofeurope.ku.dk/english/staff/profile/?id=82238 |archive-date=2012-02-25}} He was an expert on Proto-Indo-European and Indo-European languages in general, especially morphophonemics, but he also published articles on the history of Eskimo–Aleut languages and linguistic diachrony. He supported the Indo-Uralic and Eurasiatic hypotheses.{{cn|date=April 2025}}

Elmegård Rasmussen was the leading editor of the international scholarly journal Tocharian and Indo-European Studies (TIES) and chief editor of the book series Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European. He was married to the Danish Indo-Europeanist Birgit Anette Olsen.{{Cite web |last=Hyllested |first=Adam |date=2022-08-25 |title=Jens Elmegård Rasmussen |url=https://denstoredanske.lex.dk/Jens_Elmeg%C3%A5rd_Rasmussen |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230713175949/https://denstoredanske.lex.dk/Jens_Elmegård_Rasmussen |archive-date=2023-07-13 |access-date=2023-07-13 |website=Den Store Danske |language=da}}