Poul Heegaard archival material


Manuscripts by Heegaard

  1. Smaa livserindringer fortalt til mine barn og barnebarn [Small memoirs from my life, told to my children and grand children]. Fåvang, 11. februar 1945. Approx. 150 pp.
    Autobiographical, handwritten manuscript in Norwegian. Original in private possession by Poul E. Heegaard, Trondheim, Norway. A photocopy and a typed translation of the manuscript into Danish are at the Heegaard collection, IMADA, University of Southern Denmark. The typed translation is also in the Poul Heegaard Papers, The Archive, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Copenhagen, and it is available in an electronic version at Munkholm's Heegaard homepage.

  2. Naturvitenskapens hövdinger (Naturvitenskapens høvdinger og pionerer) [The Chiefs of Natural Science].
    Handwritten manuscript in Norwegian of 19 radio lectures delivered in the (then Nazi controlled) NRK (Norwegian radio) 1944-45. Original in private possession by Rese Hjelle, Aurdal, Norway. Photocopies are at: the Heegaard collection, IMADA, University of Southern Denmark and the Heegaard papers, the Archive, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. An electronic version is available at Munkholm's Heegaard homepage.

  3. Hvermands Matematik. 11 pp.
    Handwritten manuscript in Danish, apparently the start of book. Original in private possession by Rese Hjelle, Aurdal, Norway. Photocopies are at: the Heegaard collection, IMADA, University of Southern Denmark and the Heegaard papers, the Archive, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. An electronic version is available at Munkholm's Heegaard homepage.

  4. Naturforskningens Stormænd indtil det attende Aarhundrede [The Great Men of Natural Science, until the Eighteenth Century]. Almenfattet fremstillet af Professor Poul Heegaard, København 1947. 138 pp.
    Manuscript in Danish for a book (never published). The original is in private possession by Rese Hjelle, Aurdal, Norway. Photocopies are at: the Heegaard collection, IMADA, University of Southern Denmark and the Heegaard papers, the Archive, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. A typewritten version made at IMADA is also available at both places and available as an electronic version at Munkholm's Heegaard homepage.

Other manuscripts in the possession of Rese Hjelle include two notebooks with early versions of a couple of Poul Heegaard's papers and a manuscript on the four-colour theorem.



Heegaard correspondence

Below is a table of Heegaard's major correspondents. Minor correspondents are listed after the table.

Correspondent Letters from Heegaard Letters to Heegaard Location
Period # Period #
Bjerknes, Vilhelm 1 1 University of Oslo Library
Brun, Viggo 9 University of Oslo Library
Hude, Karl ~1910 ? Private archive no. 6827 (Heegaard), The Danish National Archives
Jessen, Børge 1936 2 ? 2 Børge Jessen Papers, The Archive, IMS, Copenhagen.
Mittag-Leffler, Gustav 1910-19 35 Institut Mittag-Leffler
Nielsen, Jakob 1935-47 5 Box 9, Jakob Nielsen Papers, The Archive, IMS, Copenhagen.
Veblen, Oswald 1922-30 2 1922-30 2 General corr.: Misc. H, Box 7, Veblen Papers, Library of Congress

Heegaard's minor correspondents includes the following: See also the search results, which have reference to further correspondence at the Royal Library, Copenhagen.



Newspaper articles about Heegaard

There is a series of newspaper articles in Danish from 1916-17 most of which are related to Heegaard's resignation as professor.


Pictures of Heegaard

A collection of pictures of Poul Heegaard exist in private possession by Rese Hjelle, Aurdal, Norway. Some of them are available on Munkholm's Heegaard homepage.


Other archival material related to Heegaard


Last updated: 2000.06.07, 1999.11.15