Lis Brack-Bernsen

Brack-Bernsen was born in Copenhagen on March 2, 1946.[1] She earned a diploma in mathematics with a minor in physics from the University of Copenhagen in 1970,[1] with Olaf Schmidt as a mentor,[2] and completed her Ph.D. in the history of mathematics in 1974 at the University of Basel, also with studies at Stony Brook University. Her dissertation was Die Basler Mayatafeln; astronomische Deutung der Inschriften auf den Türstürzen 2 und 3 aus Tempel IV in Tikal, and was promoted by J. O. Fleckenstein.[1]

She worked as a lecturer at the University of Copenhagen for 1974–1975, as a researcher at Stony Brook University from 1975 to 1977, and as a researcher in Grenoble and Regensburg from 1977 to 1979.[1] However, at this time she left research to raise a family.[2]

In 1997 she completed her habilitation at Goethe University Frankfurt. She worked as a privatdozentin at Goethe University until 1999, when she moved to the University of Regensburg.[1]

Brack-Bernsen was elected to the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2009.[2][3]

A festschrift, Studies on the Ancient Exact Sciences in Honour of Lis Brack-Bernsen (John Steele and Mathieu Ossendrijver, eds.) was published by Edition Topoi in 2017.[4]

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