Hilma Dymphna Clark (née Lodewyckx; 18 December 1916 – 12 May 2000) was an Australian linguist and educator.
Her father was Augustin Lodewyckx, the Associate Professor of Germanic languages at Melbourne University, and her mother – Anna Sophia (née Hansen) – also taught Swedish at Melbourne University.
[2] Clark finished Presbyterian Ladies' College early (aged 15)[3] and spent time at school in Munich, with her mother, in 1933.
In 1938, she travelled to Bonn on a scholarship to undertake doctoral studies in German literature.
[2] She taught at Blundell's School in Devon in the first year of her marriage and they returned to Australia in 1940.