Lina Dorina Johanna Eckenstein was a British polymath and historian who was acknowledged as a philosopher and scholar in the women's movement.
13 Facts About Lina Eckenstein
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Lina Eckenstein was born in Islington, London, in 1857; the highly independent mountaineer Oscar Lina Eckenstein was her younger brother.
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Lina Eckenstein had a large range of languages which she is thought to have obtained at some educational facility in Switzerland or Germany.
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Lina Eckenstein supported herself financially with conducting research, proofreading, teaching, and translation.
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Lina Eckenstein undertook significant work on Albrecht Durer for Pearson's friend Martin Conway for which she was credited on the title page of his book.
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Lina Eckenstein's family were German, but she knew French and Italian, Middle High German, Middle English, and classical and medieval Latin and European history.
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Lina Eckenstein describes the rebellion of the nuns at Poitiers after the death of Radegund.
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Lina Eckenstein's work is credited with recovering Caritas Pirckheimer from historic obscurity.
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Lina Eckenstein took on the administrative role of running the excavations camp and ensuring that finds were catalogued correctly.
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Lina Eckenstein worked at excavations at Abydos, Saqqara, Serabit el-Khadim, and El Shatt.
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Lina Eckenstein was so intrigued by the connection between the 3,000-year-old cult picture and the story of the death of Cock Robin that she published a comparative study of nursery rhymes in 1906.
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Lina Eckenstein published several other books that mixed fact with imagination.
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Lina Eckenstein died on 4 May 1931 from exhaustion and chronic cystitis at Little Hampden, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire.