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Anna-Grethe Rischel
Anna-Grethe Rischel at IPH-Kongress 2018
Born
Anna-Grethe Andersen

(1935-05-07) 7 May 1935 (age 89)

Anna-Grethe Rischel née Andersen (born 7 May 1935 in Copenhagen) is a Danish paper conservator and paper historian and president of the International Association of Paper Historians [de] (IPH). Her special interests lie in macroscopic and microscopic studies of paper technology and paper fibres, covering both Asian and European paper.

Career

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Rischel studied at the Textile Department of what is today the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation (KADK)[1] and worked for many years as a textile printer under the artistic name “Claus”.[2] In 1977 she applied for conservation studies at the School of Conservation of the KADK and received qualifications of a conservator of cultural heritage, in particular, paper and graphic art. In 1980,[2] she started a position as a conservator at the National Museum of Denmark in Brede.[3]

Rischel is known for her work on the 2000-year long history of paper. She was first interested in the subject during her preparation of an exhibition in 1983 featuring Japanese art.[2] She went to Nepal, Thailand[4] and Japan,[5] later also to China,[6] and studied Oriental paper making at its sources.[7] She has written on how the work of botanist Julius von Wiesner impacted research into paper,[8] the paper used by Hans Christian Andersen in his drawings,[9] the oldest surviving paper manuscripts,[10] and how to use analysis of paper to detect forgeries.[11]

Between 1993 and 2000 Anna-Grethe Rischel headed the section for paper technology and fiber materials of the National Museum Conservation Department. She continued to work as a conservator on the important collection of paper brought together from numerous countries and owned by the museum. This gave her the opportunity to do research on the technology and development of paper and became the starting point for the development of some specific macroscopic and microscopic survey methods.[2]

After her retirement in 2005 she continued her analysis activity on handmade paper.[2] In the 2014 book On paper: the everything of its two-thousand-year history, Nicholas A. Basbanes describes the extended conversations he had with Rischel, whom he describes as "an authority in paper analysis".[12] Rischel wrote the foreword to a 2018 book on paper.[13][14]

Memberships

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In 1986, Anna-Grethe Rischel became a member of the Nordic Paper History Association[15] and of the de:International Association of Paper Historians (IPH). She also became a member of the British Association of Paper Historians.[16] In 2008, she was elected to be the 7th President of IPH as first Scandinavian and first woman, and as of 2021 she is president of the society.[17] In this role she has presided over multiple meetings held by IPH.[18][19] Until 2018, she served as editor of the periodical IPH Paper History.[20] Since 2008 she has also been a member of the parish council of Birkerød.[2]

Selected publications

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  • Rischel, Anna-Grethe (2001). "Through the microscope lens: classification of Oriental paper technology and fibres". Looking at Paper / Ed. By John Slavin, Linda Sutherland ...: 179–188. OCLC 887063262.
  • Raschmann, Simone-Christiane; Rischel, Anna-Grethe (2012). Altturkische Handschriften. Teil 18, Teil 1, Teil 18, Teil 1 (in German). Stuttgart: F. Steiner. ISBN 978-3-515-10108-0. OCLC 866817326.
  • Ernst, Torben; Rischel, Anna-Grethe (2005). "Painting behind glass". Zeitschrift für Kunsttechnologie und Konservierung: 39–48. ISSN 0931-7198. OCLC 887276869.
  • Rischel, Anna-Grethe (2014). "Julius von Wiesner and his importance for scientific research and analysis of paper/ Anna-Grethe Rischel". Paper History. ISSN 0250-8338. OCLC 1185462284.
  • Rischel, Anna-Grethe (2004). "Analysis of the papermaker's choice of fibrous materials and technology along the paper road". Paper as a Medium of Cultural Heritage: Archaeology and Conservation (Rome-Verona, 2002). OCLC 908548675.

Personal life

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In 1961 she married Jørgen Rischel, a professor of linguistics at the University of Copenhagen.[21][22] In 2010, an edited volume of her husband's works was dedicated to Anna-Grethe to acknowledge her contribution to his research.[23]

References

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  1. ^ "KADK - The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation". Archived from the original on 2020-05-13. Retrieved 2020-05-02.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Rundt i dag". Kristeligt Dagblad (in Danish). 2015-05-07. Retrieved 2021-12-19.
  3. ^ Basbanes, Nicholas A. (2013-10-15). On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-385-35044-0.
  4. ^ Rischel, Anna-Grethe (1986). "Traditional paper making in Nepal and Thailand". Literaturangaben IPH Yearbook / International Association of Paper Historians. OCLC 888000284.
  5. ^ Rischel, Anna-Grethe (1995). "The collection of Japanese paper at the National Museum of Denmark". Kami No do. OCLC 1186403331.
  6. ^ Rischel, Anna-Grethe (1998). "Looking at Central Asian paper of Turkish, Tibetan and Chinese origin from the Silk Roads". Zsfassung in Dt., Engl. U. Franz. Sprache Papers of the 24th International Congress of Paper Historians (in German). OCLC 887982920.
  7. ^ Rischel, Anna-Grethe, Nationalmuseet, Etnografisk samling (1994). Etnografisk Samling pa Nationalmuseet reg. over den japanske papirprovesamling (in German). OCLC 723973111.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ Rischel, Anna-Grethe (2014). "Julius von Wiesner and his importance for scientific research and analysis of paper/ Anna-Grethe Rischel". Paper History. ISSN 0250-8338. OCLC 1185462284.
  9. ^ Rischel, Anna-Grethe (2015). "Hans Christian Andersen's paper and 19th century paper history". Paper History (in German). 19: 18–24. OCLC 916176740.
  10. ^ Rischel, Anna-Grethe (1996). "The World's Oldest Surviving Paper Manuscripts". Studies in Conservation Studies in Conservation. 41 (sup2): 26. doi:10.1179/sic.1996.41.s2.026. ISSN 0039-3630. OCLC 5602351889.
  11. ^ Rischel, Anna-Grethe (2003). Analysis of the Paper Material Itself: A Non-destructive Method to Distinguish Genuine Documents from Forgeries. IIC, Nordic Group.
  12. ^ Basbanes, Nicholas A. (2014). On paper : the everything of its two-thousand-year history. New York. pp. 21–22. ISBN 978-0-307-27964-4. OCLC 864700466.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  13. ^ Rischel, Anna-Grethe (2018-05-24). Foreword. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-36087-7.
  14. ^ The trade in papers marked with non-Latin characters : documents and history. Volume 1 = Le commerce des papiers à marques à caractères non-latins : documents and histoire. Volume 1. Anne Regourd. Leiden. 2018. ISBN 978-90-04-36087-7. OCLC 1037884059.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  15. ^ NPH - Nordic Paper History Association
  16. ^ BAPH - The British Association of Paper Historians.
  17. ^ "Council". www.paperhistory.org. Retrieved 2021-12-19.
  18. ^ "Madrid se viste de papel". Interempresas (in Spanish). June 27, 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-07-14. Retrieved 2021-12-19.
  19. ^ "Activities : 32nd Congress of International Paper Historians IPH : Fondazione Fedrigoni Fabriano". www.fondazionefedrigoni.it. Retrieved 2021-12-19.
  20. ^ Rischel, Anna-Grethe, ed. (2018). "Paper History" (PDF). Journal of the International Association of Paper Historians. 22 (1).
  21. ^ Fortescue, Michael (2007-10-19). "Jørgen Rischel, 1934–2007: Linguistic explorer with typological breadth". Linguistic Typology. 11 (2): 447–450. doi:10.1515/LINGTY.2007.029. ISSN 1613-415X. S2CID 122231975.
  22. ^ Rischel, Jørgen (2009). Sound Structure in Language. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-954434-9.
  23. ^ Kohler, Klaus J. (2010). "Review of Sound structure in language". Language. 86 (2): 458–462. doi:10.1353/lan.0.0221. ISSN 0097-8507. JSTOR 40666336. S2CID 144487340.
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