Christian Cornelius Jensen
Christian Cornelius Jensen was a German classical philologist and papyrologist. His father, Christian Jensen, was a local historian and teacher.
He studied classical philology at the universities of Marburg and Kiel, where he was influenced by the work of Siegfried Sudhaus. He worked as a gymnasium teacher in Kiel and Wandsbek, and in 1910 obtained his habilitation for classical philology at the University of Marburg.
In 1912 he became an associate professor at the University of Königsberg, and during the following year, attained a full professorship at the University of Jena. In 1917 he returned as a professor to Königsberg, and later on in his career, worked as a philology professor at the universities of Kiel, Bonn and Berlin.Selected works
- Philodemi Peri oikonomias qui dicitur libellus, 1906.
- De Menandri codice Cairensi lectiones novae et coniectanea, 1910, also in: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie. Neue Folge, Band 65, S. 539–577.
- Hyperidis Orationes sex cum ceterarum fragmentis / post Fridericum Blass papyris denuo collatis edidit Christianus Jensen, 1917.
- Neoptolemos und Horaz, 1919 - Neoptolemus and Horace.
- Philodemos über die Gedichte : fünftes Buch, 1923 - Philodemus; on poems.
- Reliquiae in papyris et membranis servatae, 1929.
- Ein neuer Brief Epikurs, 1933 - A new writing by Epicurus.
