Ingeborg Hammer-Jensen

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Ingeborg Hammer-Jensen

Ingeborg Hammer-Jensen (full name Ingeborg Ellen Hammer-Jensen , born January 20, 1880 in Copenhagen ; † April 6, 1955 there ) was a Danish classical philologist and science historian .

Life

Ingeborg Hammer-Jensen, the daughter of Axel Evald Hammer (1854–1938) and Thora Christine geb. Svendsen (1856–1909), attended the N. Zahles Skole and learned Greek from Anders Bjørn Drachmann . After graduating in 1898, she studied Classical Philology at the University of Copenhagen . She was particularly influenced by her academic teachers, Johan Ludvig Heiberg , who supervised her master's thesis (1905) and her doctoral thesis (1908). Hammer-Jensen was the first woman to become Dr. phil. PhD . Her dissertation dealt with Democritus atomic theory and was praised by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff as "epoch-making" for the explanation of the Platonic dialogue Timaeus .

After completing her doctorate, Hammer-Jensen continued to study ancient natural philosophy, in particular alchemy , on which she published a fundamental monograph in 1921. She also participated in important international reference works: She wrote articles for Pauly's Realenzyklopädie der Klassisch Antiquities (RE) and contributions to the catalog of alchemical manuscripts ( Catalog des manuscrits alchimiques grecs , 1927), which was conducted in Brussels by Joseph Bidez and Franz Cumont appeared. There was never a job at the university or academy, so Hammer-Jensen lived as a private scholar all her life.

Ingeborg Hammer-Jensen married the middle school teacher Jens Christian Jensen (1873–1950) on October 11, 1905; the marriage remained childless.

Fonts (selection)

  • Ad Solonem . In: Nordisk tidskrift for filologi . Volume 11 (1903), pp. 47-49
  • with Johan Ludvik Heiberg: Solens Bane . In: Nordisk tidskrift for filologi . Volume 12 (1904), pp. 97-108 (von Hammer-Jensen: pp. 103-108).
  • The ældste Atomlære . Copenhagen 1908.
    • German edition under the title: Democritus and Plato . In: Archives for the History of Philosophy . Vol. 23 (1910), pp. 92-105; 211-229.
  • Ptolemy and Heron . In: Hermes . Volume 48 (1913), pp. 224-235.
  • The so-called IV. Book of Aristotle's Meteorology . In: Hermes . Volume 50 (1915), pp. 113-136.
  • Two papyrus à contenu d'ordre chimique . In: Oversigt Over Det Kongeligh Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Forhandlinger . Year 1916, pp. 279–302.
  • The oldest alchemy . Copenhagen 1921.
  • with Carlo Oreste Zuretti , Otto Lagercrantz , Johan Ludvig Heiberg, Domenico Bassi and Emidio Martini : Catalog des manuscrits alchimiques grecs . Volume 2: Les manuscrits italiens . Brussels 1927.
  • The Heronian Question . In: Hermes . Volume 63 (1928), pp. 34-47.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff: Platon . Volume 2, Berlin 1920, p. 258.
personal data
SURNAME Hammer-Jensen, Ingeborg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hammer-Jensen, Ingeborg Ellen (full name); Hammer, Ingeborg (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1955
Place of death Copenhagen