Ingetraut Dahlberg
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Ingetraut Dahlberg Dr. |
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Ingetraut Dahlberg in her garden
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| Born |
Ingetraut Gessel 20 February 1927 Cologne, Germany |
| Died | October 24, 2017 (aged 90) Bad König, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation |
philosopher information scientist terminologist |
| Notable work | Information Coding Classification |
| Children | Wolfgang Dahlberg |
| Awards | International Association of Documentalists and Information Officers, Ranganathan Award Eugen Wüster Sonderpreis |
Ingetraut Dahlberg (20 February 1927 – 24 October 2017) was a German information scientist and philosopher who developed the universal Information Coding Classification covering some 6,500 subject fields. Her career spanned various roles in research, teaching, editing, and publishing. Dahlberg founded the journal International Classification (now Knowledge Organization) as well as both the scientific Society for Classification () and International Society for Knowledge Organization.
The interest of Ingetraut Dahlberg in Documentation started when – at an age of 10 years – she received a camera from her father at Christmas. She started to document everything she regarded as important.
Ingetraut Dahlberg lived most of her time in Frankfurt/Main. She studied Philosophy, History, Anglistics, Catholic Theology, and Biology at the universities of Frankfurt, Würzburg and Düsseldorf with one college year in the United States in between.
She married the physicist Dr. Reinhard Dahlberg, with whom she had her son Wolfgang.
In 1959 she started a position at the Gmelin Institute headed by Prof. Dr. Erich Pietsch. Her job was to create bibliographical publications within the Documentation Center for Nuclear power. In 1961 she changed to abstracting work on economical topics in the “Rationalisierungs-Kuratorium der Deutschen Wirtschaft” (Board of Rationalisation and Innovation for the German Economy).
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