Elisabeth Walther-Bense
Elisabeth Walther-Bense was a German semiotician. She also worked as a publicist, editor, and translator.
Early life
Walther-Bense was born on August 10, 1922 in Oberweißbach, Thuringia, Germany.Education
In 1950, She earned her doctorate at the University of Stuttgart under Max Bense, where she wrote her dissertation 'Die Rolle der Logik von Port Royal in der Frühgeschichte der exakten Wissenschaften'. She was the first woman to hold a professorship at the University of Stuttgart's Department of Systematic Philosophy.Career
Walther-Bense taught at the Stuttgart Technische Hochschule from 1956 to 1983. Along with her husband Max Bense, she also taught at the Ulm School of Design and the in Rio de Janeiro.She was a significant co-contributor with Max Bense to work on art, design, and semiotics as influenced by information and control systems theory emerging at the time, and documented much of his work in Germany and Brazil.
She was the editor of the journal , co-editor of Rot and co-editor of Semiosis, which she co-founded with Max Bense.