Mogens Herman Hansen

Who is Mogens Herman Hansen?

Mogens Herman Hansen FBA is a Danish classical philologist and classical demographer who is one of the leading scholars in Athenian Democracy and the Polis.

He finished his masters at University of Copenhagen in 1967. The following year he was engaged to work at the same university. He has written many books about the Athenian Democracy. From 1993 to 2005 he was the director of the Copenhagen Polis Centre.

He is Visiting Fellow at the University of Melbourne, University of British Columbia, Wolfson College, Princeton University, and Churchill College.

He is a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, by Deutsche Archaeologisches Institute and the British Academy.

In June 2010 Mogens Herman Hansen retired after 40 years at Copenhagen University.