Hortense Panum

Hortense Charlotte Anine Panum (1856–1933) was a Danish music historian who taught in the early 20th century at the Danish Folk University and the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Among her publications were the first volume of Illustreret Musikhistorie (Illustrated History of Music, 1897) and Middelalderens Strengeinstrumenter og deres Forløbere i Oldtiden, published in English as The Stringed Instruments of the Middle Ages: Their Evolution and Development. In 1898, together with the composer Louis Glass, she founded the Dansk Musikpædagogisk Forening (Danish Music Education Association).

Early life and education Born in Kiel, Germany, on 14 March 1856, Hortense Charlotte Anine Panum was the daughter of Peter Ludvig Panum (1820–1885) and Hortense Susanne née Hagen (1826–1899). She spent her early childhood in Kiel where her father, a physiologist, taught at the university. Faced by anti-Danish sentiment in Germany, the family moved to Copenhagen where her father became a professor at the university in 1864.