TY - JOUR
T1 - Female Friendship in the World of Higher Learning
T2 - The Entangled Lives of Grethe Hjort/Greta Hort (1903-1967) and Julie Moscheles (1892-1956)
AU - de Coninck-Smith, Ning
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - During WW2, the Danish scholar of English literature Grethe Hjort developed a close friendship with the Czech-Jewish geographer Julie Moscheles. Their paths crossed in Melbourne, and afterwards they settled in Prague. When Moscheles died in 1956, Hjort returned to Denmark to become only the second female professor at Aarhus University in 1958. Based on a study of private correspondence, this article has three interlinked intentions. Firstly, I explore the two women's entangled lives and their encounters with the world of academia during peacetime and war. Secondly, I situate their biographies in a historical context in light of the academic paths followed by modern young women of the interwar generation, who experienced education as a gateway to independence from conventional gender norms. Finally, the article offers an affective sensibility that adds to the conceptualization of scholarly personae.
AB - During WW2, the Danish scholar of English literature Grethe Hjort developed a close friendship with the Czech-Jewish geographer Julie Moscheles. Their paths crossed in Melbourne, and afterwards they settled in Prague. When Moscheles died in 1956, Hjort returned to Denmark to become only the second female professor at Aarhus University in 1958. Based on a study of private correspondence, this article has three interlinked intentions. Firstly, I explore the two women's entangled lives and their encounters with the world of academia during peacetime and war. Secondly, I situate their biographies in a historical context in light of the academic paths followed by modern young women of the interwar generation, who experienced education as a gateway to independence from conventional gender norms. Finally, the article offers an affective sensibility that adds to the conceptualization of scholarly personae.
KW - female friendship
KW - Grethe Hjort [Greta Hort]
KW - history of higher learning
KW - Julie Moscheles
KW - modern women
KW - scholarly personae
U2 - 10.36368/njedh.v11i2.1062
DO - 10.36368/njedh.v11i2.1062
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85195792099
SN - 2001-7766
VL - 11
SP - 127
EP - 148
JO - Nordic Journal of Educational History
JF - Nordic Journal of Educational History
IS - 2
ER -