Maria Mogensen

Maria Pouline Mogensen (1 October 1882 – 31 October 1932) was a Danish curator and Egyptologist. The first Danish female Egyptologist, Mogensen played a major role in the development of the Egyptian collection at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.

Early life and education Mogensen was born on 1 October 1882 in Copenhagen to Niels Mogensen (1848–1916), a machinist, and Marie Vilhelmine Emilie Dohn (1857–1882). The youngest of three siblings, Mogensen's mother died when she was 3 months old. As Schmidt's assistant Mogensen helped purchase Egyptian antiquities from auctions and from the excavations of Flinders Petrie.

In 1919, Mogensen published a French and Swedish-language catalogue of the Nationalmuseums Egyptian Collection. The same year Mogensen received the Litteris et Artibus. Between 1921 and 1922 Mogensen travelled across Egypt.

Following Schmidt's death in 1925, Mogensen was appointed curator in 1926. Mogensen played a major role in the development of the Egyptian collection and the use of preservation practices.

On 31 October 1932 Mogensen died in Copenhagen aged 50.

Publications

Nationalmuseum; Mogensen, Maria (1919). Vägledning i den Egyptiska Samlingen (in Swedish).

Mogensen, Maria (1930). Katalog over den ægyptiske Samling på Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek med Album (in Danish).