Hansen, Miriam, 1949-2011

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Name (Latin)
Hansen, Miriam, 1949-2011
Other forms of name
Khansen, Miriam, 1949-2011
Bratu, Dorothea Miriam, 1949-2011
Hansen, Miriam, 1949-
Date of birth
1949-04-28
Date of death
2011-02-05
Place of birth
Offenbach am Main (Germany)
Place of death
Chicago (Ill.)
Occupation
Film historians
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 111828067
Wikidata: Q6873339
Library of congress: n 90658282
Sources of Information
  • Vavilon i vavilonskoe stolpotvorenie, 2023:title page (Мириам Хансен = Miriam Khansen) title page verso (Miriam Hansen)
  • Babel and Babylon, 1991:CIP t.p. (Miriam Hansen) data sheet (b. April 28, 1949)
  • Her Ezra Pounds frühe Poetik u. Kulturkritik zwischen Aufklärung u. Avantgarde, 1979:t.p. (Miriam Hansen)
  • New York times WWW site, Feb. 14, 2011(in obituary published Feb. 12: Miriam Hansen; b. Dorothea Miriam Bratu, Apr. 28, 1949, Offenbach, Germany; d. Feb. 5, Chicago, aged 61; scholar of cinema who studied not only film itself but also the early 20th-century creation known as the film audience)
  • Wikipedia, March 14, 2012(Miriam Hansen; b. 28 April 1949; d. 5 February 2011; film historian who made important contributions to the study of early cinema and mass culture. Born Miriam Bratu in Offenbach, Germany, Hansen received a doctorate in American literature from Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt. She worked at Yale University and Rutgers before moving to the University of Chicago, where she served as Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at the time of her death. She founded the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at that university)