Hilma Dymphna Clark was an Australian linguist and educator.
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Dymphna Clark finished Presbyterian Ladies' College early and spent time at school in Munich, with her mother, in 1933.
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Dymphna Clark was there when Kristallnacht occurred, and left soon after with the increasing threat of war.
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Dymphna Clark met with Clark in Oxford and they married there on 31 January 1939.
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Dymphna Clark taught at Blundell's School in Devon in the first year of her marriage and they returned to Australia in 1940.
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Dymphna Clark became a distinguished linguist and translator, fluent in eight languages and able to speak another four.
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Dymphna Clark lectured in German at the Australian National University in Canberra.
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Dymphna Clark's translations included the botanist Charles von Hugel's New Holland Journals and, with Peter Sack, the German reports of the Governor of German New Guinea from 1886 to 1914.
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Dymphna Clark worked on her husband's projects, undertaking editing and research.
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Dymphna Clark established Manning Clark House, and was heavily involved in the Aboriginal Treaty Committee ; it was she who drafted the Council's preamble for review by Parliament.