21 Facts About CK Ogden

Charles Kay CK Ogden was an English linguist, philosopher, and writer.

CK Ogden is typically defined as a linguistic psychologist, and is mostly remembered as the inventor and propagator of Basic English.

Charles Kay CK Ogden was born at Rossall School in Fleetwood, Lancashire, on 1 June 1889 to Charles Burdett CK Ogden and Fanny Hart, who were married in 1888 at Chorlton, Lancashire.

Charles Kay CK Ogden was educated at Buxton and Rossall, won a scholarship to Magdalene College, Cambridge, and commenced his undergraduate study of Classics in 1908.

CK Ogden visited continental Europe to investigate methods of language teaching in 1912 and 1913.

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In 1909, while still an undergraduate, CK Ogden co-founded the Heretics Society in Cambridge which questioned traditional authorities in general and religious dogmas in particular, in the wake of the paper Prove All Things, read by William Chawner, Master of Emmanuel College, a past Vice-Chancellor.

CK Ogden was President of the Heretics from 1911, for more than a decade; he invited a variety of prominent speakers and linked the Society to his role as editor.

CK Ogden was very active at this period in seeing these works into print.

In 1912 CK Ogden founded the weekly Cambridge Magazine, which he edited until it ceased publication in 1922.

CK Ogden continued to edit the magazine during World War I, when its nature changed, because rheumatic fever as a teenager had left him unfit for military service.

CK Ogden often used the pseudonym Adelyne More in his journalism.

CK Ogden contacted Ogden in March 1920 and Ogden published his poetry in the Magazine.

CK Ogden translated a related work by Georg Kerschensteiner who had introduced him to Best, which appeared as The Schools and the Nation .

CK Ogden ran two bookshops in Cambridge as well as a gallery where he sold works of art by members of the Bloomsbury Group.

CK Ogden built up a position as editor for Kegan Paul, publishers in London.

CK Ogden helped with the English translation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

From 1928 to 1930 CK Ogden set out his developing ideas on Basic English and Jeremy Bentham in Psyche.

In 1932 CK Ogden published a translation of the Finnegans Wake passage into Basic English.

CK Ogden was a consultant with the International Auxiliary Language Association, which presented Interlingua in 1951.

CK Ogden furthermore was the editor for Kenneth Searight's book Sona .

CK Ogden went on to edit as Bentham's Theory of Fictions a work of Jeremy Bentham, and had already translated in 1911 as The Philosophy of 'As If' a work of Hans Vaihinger, both of which are regarded as precursors of the modern theory of fictionalism.