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Johan Ludvig Heiberg

Danish philologist and historian

Born on: November 27, 1854
Died on: January 4, 1928
Aged: 73 years 38 days (877 months)
Birth Sign: Sagittarius

 

Johan Ludvig Heiberg

Johan Ludvig Heiberg was a Danish philologist and historian. He is best known for his discovery of previously unknown texts in the Archimedes Palimpsest, and for his edition of Euclid's Elements that T.

L. Heath translated into English. He also published an edition of Ptolemy's Almagest.


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