Prof. Dr. Lis Brack-Bernsen

• 1964 – 1970
  Studied mathematics and physics at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in addition to the history of mathematics and astronomy
  
  

• 1969
  Diplom thesis on astronomy in antiquity, University of Copenhagen
  
  

• 1970
  Diplom degree in mathematics with a minor in physics, University of Copenhagen
  
  

• 1970 – 1971
  Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
  
  

• 1971 – 1972
  Collaborated on the Bernoulli Edition; worked on the letters from Kratzenstein (Copenhagen) to Johann III Bernoulli in Basel
  
  

• 1972 – 1974
  Studied the history of science and social anthropology at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
  
  

• 1974
  Doctorate (Dr. Phil II = Doctor of Natural Science) under Professor Fleckenstein (University of Basel) in the history of mathematics
  
  

• 1974 – 1975
  Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen
  
  

• 1975 – 1976
  Received the Julie Winter Hansen travel award for one year; research on Babylonian astronomy, State University of New York at Stony Brook
  
  

• 1975 – 1977
  Spent two years abroad in the USA at State University of New York at Stony Brook
  
  

• 1977 – 1978
  Spent one year abroad in Grenoble, France.
  
  

• Since 1979
  In Regensburg, Germany
  
  

• 1992 – 1994
  Habilitation (postdoctoral qualification) fellowship from the German Research Foundation (DFG). Topic: Babylonian lunar texts, observation and theory
  
  

• 1994 – 1996
  Academic re-entry fellowship from the Free State of Bavaria, Germany
  
  

• 1997
  Habilitation and venia legendi (authorisation to teach) in the area of history of science, received from the Department of Physics at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
  
  

• 1997 – 1999
  Private lecturer at Goethe University Frankfurt
  
  

• 1999
  Jan – April Visiting Fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA; afterwards, Private lecturer at the University of Regensburg, Germany
  
  

• Since 2006
  Professor by special appointment, University of Regensburg
  
  

• 1999 – 2002
  Research associate in the Department of Philosophy, including history of science, at the University of Regensburg, as part of the DFG research project "Babylonian Astronomy II: The early stages of Babylonian astronomy, together with an astronomical analysis of and a new edition of the Babylonian cuneiform text TU 11"
  
  

• 2003 – 2005
  Research associate in the Department of Philosophy, including history of science, at the University of Regensburg, as part of the DFG research project "Analysis from the perspective of the history of astronomy of atypical and other non-mathematical astronomy cuneiform texts"
  
  

• 2005 – 2009
  Research associate in the Department of Philosophy, including history of science, at the University of Regensburg, as part of the DFG research project "Analysis from the perspective of the history of astronomy of cuneiform texts on time differences: Predicting days and points in time in Babylonian lunar theory"
  
  

• Since 2010
  Retired; continuing research on astronomy and mathematics in antiquity, in conjunction with researchers in Germany, Austria, Denmark, and the US
  
  

• Bernsen, L.: "On the Construction of Column B in System A of the Astronomical Cuneiform Texts" in Centaurus 14 (1969) pp. 23 – 28.

• Brack-Bernsen, L.: "Some investigations on the ephemerids of the Babylonian moon texts system A" Centaurus 24 (1980) pp. 36 – 50.

• Brack-Bernsen, L.: "On the Babylonian Lunar Theory A: Construction of Column ; from Horizontal Observations", Centaurus 33 (1990) 39 – 56.

• Brack-Bernsen, L.: Zur Entstehung der Babylonischen Mondtheorie: Beobachtung und theoretische Berechnung von Mondphasen. Habilitation (postdoctoral) thesis. Boethius Series, Vol. 40, Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart (1997)

• Brack-Bernsen, L.: "Goal Year Tablets: Lunar Data and Predictions" Lecture held in May 1994 at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, MIT, Boston, in Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination. Ed. N. M. Swerdlow, Publications of the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England (1999) pp. 149 – 177.

• Brack-Bernsen, L. and Hunger, H.: "TU 11, A Collection of Rules for the Prediction of Lunar Phases and of Month Lenghts". SCIAMVS 3 (2002) pp. 3 – 90.

• Brack-Bernsen, L. and Steele, J. M.: "Eclipse Prediction and the Length of the Saros in Babylonian Astronomy", in Centaurus 47 (2005) pp. 181 – 206.

• Brack-Bernsen, L.: "Methods for understanding and reconstructing Babylonian predicting rules", in: Writings of early scholars in the ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece, edited by Annette Imhausen and Tanja Pommerening, Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Volume 286 (Berlin: de Gruyter 2010), 277 – 297.

• Brack-Bernsen, L. and Hunger, H.: "BM 42282+42294 and the Goal-Year Method". SCIAMVS 9 (2008) pp. 3 – 23.

• Brack-Bernsen, L.: "Prediction of days and pattern of the Babylonian Lunar Six", Archiv für Orientforschung, Vol. 52 (2010), 156 – 178.

• Work with the Regensburger Symposien und Methodikseminare (Regensburg symposia and methodology seminars--"Science in the context of societal decisions and worldviews"), since 2008

• Reviewer of theses for Diplom degrees and doctorates at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Aarhus, Denmark, Durham University, UK, and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

Other activities and achievements/family

• Married with 3 children

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