19:(January 21, 1944 – May 24, 2024) was a German professor of English, literary critic, Shakespeare scholar and writer who claims to have found conclusive answers to many of the unresolved problems of Shakespeare's life and literary career using trans-disciplinary research methods. Among the answers she claims to have found are Shakespeare's religion, the identity of the 'Dark Lady' of his sonnets, and the authentic portraits.
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English literature and cultural studies at the two universities since then. From 1979 to 1982, she served as Consul for Cultural Affairs at the German consulate general in Toronto. From 1982 to 2005, Professor Hammerschmidt-Hummel was the senior research scholar and editor of
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Shakespeare Illustration project, the archives of which she greatly enlarged after the founder of the archive, Professor Horst Oppel, died in 1982.
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Hammerschmidt-Hummel's views are based on a "fundamental misunderstanding of visual art".
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The True Face of
William Shakespeare: The Poet's Death Mask and Likenesses from Three Periods of His Life
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Die verborgene
Existenz des William Shakespeare: Dichter und Rebell im katholischen Untergrund
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The Hidden Life of
William Shakespeare: Poet and Rebel in the Catholic Underground
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Cf. Hildegard
Hammerschmidt-Hummel, "History of the Shakespeare Image Archive",
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Hammerschmidt-Hummel's work has drawn some criticism. Tarnya Cooper of the
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Das
Geheimnis um Shakespeares 'Dark Lady': Dokumentation einer Enthüllung
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The Secret
Surrounding Shakespeare's Dark Lady: Uncovering a Mystery
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The Life and Times of William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
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