Prof. Dr. Christine Abbt
Humanities, Social and behavioural sciences
Humanities, Health
Academic field: History of science. Area of specialisation: The development of Babylonian astronomy and mathematics
Danish, English, French, German
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
Married with 3 children
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