Female Friendship in the World of Higher Learning: The Entangled Lives of Grethe Hjort/Greta Hort (1903-1967) and Julie Moscheles (1892-1956)

Ning de Coninck-Smith

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Female Friendship in the World of Higher Learning: The Entangled Lives of Grethe Hjort/Greta Hort (1903-1967) and Julie Moscheles (1892-1956)

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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.

Original language	English
Journal	Nordic Journal of Educational History
Volume	11
Issue	2
Pages (from-to)	127-148
Number of pages	22
ISSN	2001-7766
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.36368/njedh.v11i2.1062
Publication status	Published - 2024

Keywords

female friendship
Grethe Hjort [Greta Hort]
history of higher learning
Julie Moscheles
modern women
scholarly personae

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Female Friendship in the World of Higher Learning: The Entangled Lives of Grethe Hjort/Greta Hort (1903-1967) and Julie Moscheles (1892-1956)

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