Christian Cornelius Jensen

Christian Cornelius Jensen (20 July 1883 in Archsum auf Sylt – 18 September 1940 in Berlin) was a German classical philologist and papyrologist.

His father, Christian Jensen (1857–1936), 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.

[1] 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 1917 he returned as a professor to Königsberg, and later on in his career, worked as a philology professor at the universities of Kiel (from 1921), Bonn (from 1926) and Berlin (from 1937).