Christian Cornelius Jensen

Christian Cornelius Jensen (1919)

Christian Cornelius Jensen (20 July 1883 in Archsum auf Sylt – 18 September 1940 in Berlin) was a German classical philologist and papyrologist. His father, Christian Jensen (1857–1936), was a local historian and teacher.

He studied classical philology at the universities of Marburg and Kiel, where he was influenced by the work of Siegfried Sudhaus.^[1] He worked as a gymnasium teacher in Kiel and Wandsbek, and in 1910 obtained his habilitation for classical philology at the University of Marburg.^[2]

In 1912 he became an associate professor at the University of Königsberg, and during the following year, attained a full professorship at the University of Jena. In 1917 he returned as a professor to Königsberg, and later on in his career, worked as a philology professor at the universities of Kiel (from 1921), Bonn (from 1926) and Berlin (from 1937).^[3]

Selected works

• Philodemi Peri oikonomias qui dicitur libellus, 1906 (edition of Philodemus).
• De Menandri codice Cairensi lectiones novae et coniectanea, 1910 (habilitation thesis), also in: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie. Neue Folge, Band 65 (1910), S. 539–577.
• Hyperidis Orationes sex cum ceterarum fragmentis / post Fridericum Blass papyris denuo collatis edidit Christianus Jensen, 1917 (post Friedrich Blass; edition of Hypereides).^[4]
• Neoptolemos und Horaz, 1919 (Abhandlungen der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften: Philosophisch-historische Klasse; 1918, Nr. 14) – Neoptolemus and Horace.
• Philodemos über die Gedichte : fünftes Buch, 1923 – Philodemus; on poems.
• Reliquiae in papyris et membranis servatae, 1929 (edition of Menander).
• Ein neuer Brief Epikurs, 1933 (Abhandlungen der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch-Historische Klasse; Folge 3, Nr. 5) – A new writing by Epicurus.^[5]

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