Hansen was born in Ribe to Joseph Christian Hansen, a house-painter, and his wife Ane Catherina Dyhre.[1]
He was awarded a gold medal in 1876 for an essay on fungi, titled De danske Gjødningssvampe.[2] During his days as a university student in Copenhagen, he worked as an unpaid assistant to zoologistJapetus Steenstrup (1813–1897).
Career
In 1876, with Alfred Jørgensen (1848–1925), he published a Danish translation of Charles Darwin’s "The Voyage of the Beagle"; Rejse om Jorden. From 1879 to 1909, he was director of the physiological department at Carlsberg Laboratory.[3]
Claussen, Niels Hjelte Emil Christian Hansen, pp. 161–164 in: Meisen, V. Prominent Danish Scientists through the Ages. University Library of Copenhagen 450th Anniversary. Levin & Munksgaard, Copenhagen (1932)
Beer in Health and Disease Prevention edited by Victor R. Preedy
References
^Klöcker, Albert (1976) [Written in 1910]. "Emil Christian Hansen 1842-1909". In Holter, H.; Moller, K. Max (eds.). The Carlsberg Laboratory, 1876/1976. Copenhagen: The Carlsberg Foundation. pp. 168–189.
^Encyclopedia.com (biography)
^Darwinarkivet (biographical information)
^www.germanbeerinstitute.com Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
^Olesen, K; Felding, T; Gjermansen, C; Hansen, J (2002). "The dynamics of the Saccharomyces carlsbergensis brewing yeast transcriptome during a production-scale lager beer fermentation". FEMS Yeast Res. 2 (4): 563–73. doi:10.1016/s1567-1356(02)00155-1. PMID 12702272.
^Encyclopedia of Life Anixiopsis
^"Hanseniaspora Zikes, 1911". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 26 March 2022.