Elisabeth Walther-Bense () was a German semiotician. She also worked as a publicist, editor, and translator.
Biography Early life and education Walther-Bense was born on 10 August 1922 in Oberweißbach, Thuringia, Germany. In 1950, She earned her doctorate at the Stuttgart Institute of Technology under Max Bense, where she wrote her dissertation ().
Career Walther-Bense taught at the Stuttgart Institute of Technology (from 1967, the University of Stuttgart) from 1956 to 1983. She was the first woman to hold a professorship at the University's Department of Systematic Philosophy. Along with her husband Bense, she also taught at the Ulm School of Design and the at UERJ.
She was a significant co-contributor with 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.
Walther-Bense was the editor of the journal (1955-1960), co-editor of Rot (1960–90) and co-editor of Semiosis (1976-1990), which she co-founded with Bense.
Personal life Walther married her employer and colleague Bense in 1988.
Major works With Bense, she co-authored () in 1973. Her 1974 work () helped to make Charles Sanders Peirce's work accessible in Germany. She later published in 1989.
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