Secondary literature about Poul Heegaard

Munkholm, Ellen S & Munkholm, Hans J.: Poul Heegaard, Preprints 1997, Nr. 39, Institut for Matematik og Datalogi, Odense Universitet, Oktober 1997.
Preprint of a biographical article to appear in a volume of the history of topology (se below). The preprint is available on a homepage maintained by Munkholm.
Munkholm, Ellen S & Munkholm, Hans J.: Poul Heegaard (1871-1948), dansk-norsk topolog, Normat 46 (1998), pp. 145-169.
This article in Danish describes Heegaard's life with emphasize on his more popular activities. The preprint of the article is available on a homepage maintained by Munkholm.
Munkholm, Ellen S & Munkholm, Hans J.: Poul Heegaard, in: History of Topology, edited by I. M. James, Elsevier, Amsterdam 1999, pp. 925-946.
A biographical article in English, which also shortly discusses his mathematical works.
Ramskov, Kurt: Fra de akademiske kulisser: universitetets matematiske stillinger 1909-17. Preprint Series 1998, No. 10, Department of Mathematics, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, September 1998. i+44 pp.
This article in Danish discusses how Heegaard became a mathematics professor at the University of Copenhagen in 1910, and why he already resigned in 1917.

Johannsen, Ingebrigt: Minnetale over Professor Poul Heegaard holdt i den mat.-naturv. klasses møte den 1. november 1948. Det norske Videnskaps-Akademi i Oslo, Årbok 1948. Jacob Dybwad, Oslo 1949, pp. 36-45.
This is the only known obituary of Heegaard. It includes a picture and a very extensive bibliography.

A short biography of Heegaard in the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, St. Andrews, Scotland.
The Heegaard homepage maintained by Hans J. Munkholm, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark. It contains electronic versions of manuscripts, pictures, etc.

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