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==Life==
Hoffmeyer was born in [[Roskilde]]. a large city on an island near Copenhagen, in 1910. Her father Lauritz J. Bruhn was in the police and Alfa Karen Margrethe Larsen was her mother. She left [[Roskilde Cathedral School]] in 1923 and she had always been interested in archaeology. Sheworked in several museums and joined the Tøjhusmuseet in 1939. She obtained funding to study in Rome where she wrote "Oltos and Early Greek Vase Painting" which was published in 1943.<ref name="Hoffmeyer1943">{{cite book|author=Ada Bruhn de Hoffmeyer|title=Oltos and early red-figure vase painting|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WaRJAQAAIAAJ|year=1943|publisher=Nyt Nordisk forlag}}</ref> By thistime she led the department of weapons and armour at the Tøjhusmuseet.
In 1945 she became a doctor with a dissertation on the ''Medieval double-edged sword''. This was published in 1954 and was well regarded as a source for study.<ref name="Oakeshott1998">{{cite book|author=Ewart Oakeshott|title=The Sword in the Age of Chivalry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TYcBwoeWwp0C&pg=RA1-PA14|year=1998|publisher=Boydell Press|isbn=978-0-85115-715-3|pages=1–}}</ref>
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