Uta Lindgren (1941–2017) was a German historian of science and historian of technology, an expert on the medieval quadrivium and geodesy, and a pioneer of the history of cartography.
She completed a doctorate there in 1969, on topics including the quadrivium and the early life of Pope Sylvester II.
At some point after this, she emigrated to West Germany, and completed a habilitation in 1978 at the University of Cologne, on the medieval history of Barcelona.
She had her first publication on this topic in 1985, on the geography of Ptolemy, and a year later organized a conference on historic maps of the Alps.
[1][2] Her publications from this period include works on medieval knowledge of the figure of the Earth, on the biographies and discoveries of medieval and Renaissance cartographers, and a translation of a Spanish-language travelogue of central Asia.