Harald Ingemann Jensen Collection of Queensland maps and plans

"Harald Ingemann Jensen (1879-1966), geologist and socialist pamphleteer, was born in 1879 at Aarhus, Jutland, Denmark, son of Niels Georg Oscar Jensen, farmer and clerk, and his wife Clara, née Nielsen, who claimed descent from Bernhard Severin Ingemann (1789-1862), Denmark's great romantic poet. Migrating with his parents to Queensland at 6, Jensen attended public schools at Irvinebank, North Queensland, and Caboolture, then won a scholarship to the Brisbane Boys' Grammar School. After employment at Clement Wragge's Mount Kosciusko observatory in 1898, he entered the University of Sydney, withdrew to teach in Sydney and North Queensland in 1900-01 and returned in 1902, graduating B.Sc. in 1904 with honours in geology. An assistant demonstrator in geology and chemistry under (Sir) Edgeworth David in 1904-05, he was appointed first Macleay fellow of the Linnean Society of New South Wales in 1905. Before resigning in 1908 he travelled in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and New Zealand and published many professional papers. Awarded a D.Sc. and the university medal in 1908, he worked in 1908-11 as a soil scientist with the New South Wales Department of Agriculture and wrote Soils of New South Wales (1914)". [Information taken from the Australian Dictionary of Biography, retrieved 6 March 2015 from http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/jensen-harald-ingemann-6839]