Jean Hamilton Hubener

Jean Isabel Hamilton Hübener (15 August 1904 – 15 January 1981) was an Australian academic of German studies. Originally based in Germany, she and her husband fled to Canada due to the Nazi regime. She succeeded her husband as head of the Mount Allison University Department of German after his death, and she later became head of the University of New Brunswick Department of German, the creation in which she was instrumental.

Biography Jean Isabel Hamilton, one of six siblings, was born on 15 August 1904 in Jarrahdale, Western Australia. After obtaining her BA in Languages in 1927 from the University of Western Australia, she obtained her PhD in 1931 from the University of Bonn on an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation scholarship, the first Australian women to get the latter. was later published as a book the Telegraph-Journal called "a standard work in [its] field". to travel to Harvard University and Germany (freed from Nazi rule by then) to research "the intellectual resistance to Nazism and communism". which she accepted after returning from her research trip.

Her brother Len Hamilton was MP for Swan (1946–1949) and Canning (1949–1961).