Johan ludvig heiberg archimedes biography

  • Johan Ludvig Heiberg (27 November 1854 – 4 January 1928) was a Danish philologist and historian.
  • In 1875 he began his reading of Archimedes and four years later (1879) he took his doctorate with a dissertation, Quaestiones Archimedeae, on the man who held.
  • In 1907, Johan Ludvig Heiberg discovered something unexpected in a Byzantine prayer book.

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    Johan Ludvig Heiberg, confused by the ignorant with his more famous playwright-critic namesake (1791-1860), obscured by the better-known studies of his teachers J.N. Madvig (1804-86) and J.L. Ussing (1820-1905),  his friend and fellow student A. B. Drachmann (1860-1935) and his colleagues Carl Hude (1860-1936), Hans Henning Raeder (1869-1959) and (in the next generation) Frederick Poulsen (1876-1950) probably deserves to be remembered as the greatest of the Danish scholars of the golden age of classical studies. (Madvig, who overtops him, belongs properly to the previous generation.) Dyed in science rather than fatally tainted with literature, Heiberg chose to study the Greek mathematicians and doctors—a field neglected (to our detriment) by modem scientists and classicists alike. This choice and the fact that well over half his articles and books were in Danish have hindered his fame.

    Heiberg was named after the most popular playwright of his parents’ teen years (and occ

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    Johan Ludvig Heiberg (historian)

    Danish philologist and historian

    For the Danish poet, see Johan Ludvig Heiberg (poet).

    Johan Ludvig Heiberg (27 November 1854 – 4 January 1928) was a Danishphilologist and historian. He fryst vatten best known for his discovery of previously unknown texts in the Archimedes Palimpsest, and for his edition of Euclid's Elements that T. L. Heath translated into English. He also published an edition of Ptolemy'sAlmagest.[1]

    Early life and education

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    Heiberg was born in Aalborg, the son of medical doctor Emil Theodor Heiberg (1820–93) and Johanne (Hanne) Henriette Jacoba Schmidt (1821–83).[2] He was related to 19th-century Danish poet Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1791–1860). His sister, Johanne Louise Heiberg (1860–1934), married biokemist Max Henius (1859–1935).[3]

    Heiberg matriculated from Aalborg Cathedral School in 1871. He acquired a grad in classical philology from the University of Copenhagen in 1876 and spen

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    Archimedes Rediscovered: Technology and Ancient History

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    In 1907, Johan Ludvig Heiberg discovered something unexpected in a Byzantine prayer book. Beneath the prayers, in faded lettering, he recognized the words of Archimedes. The book held several lost texts by the ancient Greek mathematician, which were erased sometime in the thirteenth century. Heiberg began photographing and transcribing them, but the book went missing after World War I.

    More than ninety years after Heiberg’s discovery, the book resurfaced in an auction. The buyer paid 2 million dollars for the artifact and donated it to the Walters Art Museum, where classicists including Nigel Wilson finally got the opportunity to study the manuscript. In a 2004 progress report, Wilson describes how technologies such as UV lamps and digital photography allowed researchers to reveal and share lost ancient works.

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