John Gunther Dean
Dean speaks four languages: English, French, German and Danish. He was the first U.S. Ambassador to Denmark who learned and spoke Danish, thus gaining significant respect from its people. He is married to the French-born Martine Duphenieux, and they have three grown children. He now lives in Switzerland and France but remains active on foreign affairs issues and comes to the U.S. often.
Denmark
Most handbooks derive the first part of the word, and the name of the people, from a word meaning "flat land", related to German "threshing floor", English "den" "cave". The "-mark" is believed to mean woodland or borderland (see marches), with probable references to the border forests in south Schleswig.