Thyra Eibe
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Thyra Eibe | |
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| Born | 3 November 1866 |
| Died | 4 January 1955 (aged 88) Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Alma mater | University of Copenhagen |
| Occupations | Mathematician, translator |
Thyra Eibe (3 November 1866 – 4 January 1955)[1] was a Danish mathematician and translator, the first woman to earn a mathematics degree from the University of Copenhagen. She is known for her translation of Euclid's Elements into the Danish Language.[2]
Eibe was one of ten children of a Copenhagen bookseller. After completing a degree in historical linguistics in 1889 from N. Zahle's School (then a girls' school), Eibe studied mathematics at the University of Copenhagen, and earned a cand.mag. there in 1895. She returned to Zahle's School as a teacher, also teaching boys at Slomann's School and becoming the first woman to become an advanced mathematics teacher for boys in Denmark. In 1898 she moved to H. Adler Community College, later to become the Sortedam Gymnasium, where she remained until 1934, serving as principal for a year in 1929–1930.[1]
