Anna Morpurgo Davies

Dame Anna Morpurgo Davies DBE (born June 21, 1937 in Milan , † September 27, 2014 in Oxford ) was a British linguist ( Indo-Europeanist ) of Italian origin.

Life

Anna Morpurgo studied Classical Philology in Rome, where she worked as an assistant from 1959. In 1961/1962 she was a Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC . In 1964 she was hired as a lecturer in Classical Philology at the University of Oxford . In 1966 she was made a Fellow of St Hilda's College . From 1971 she was Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford University, also a Fellow of Somerville College . In 2004 she retired . From 1962 to 1978 she was withJohn K. Davies married.

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Anna Morpurgo Davies dealt with the script Linear B as well as the Mycenaean Greek and the ancient Anatolian languages , in particular with the Hittite and Luwian . She has taught as a visiting professor at various universities in the United States, including Berkeley ( Sather Professor 1999/2000, Visiting Professor 2006 and 2007).

Memberships and honors

• Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College (1972)
• Member of the Society of Antiquaries of London (1974)
• Honorary Doctorate (DLitt) from the University of St Andrews (1981)
• Member of the British Academy (1985)
• Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1986)
• corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Member of the Academia Europaea (1989)
• Foreign member of the American Philosophical Society (1991)
• Corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1992)
• Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America (1993)
• Corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1998)
• Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2000)
• Honorary doctorate from the University of Nancy (2009)
• External member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (2010)

Fonts (selection)

• Mycenaeae Graecitatis Lexicon . Rome 1963 (Incunabula Graeca, III).
• with Wolfgang Meid : Studies in Greek, Italic and Indo-European Linguistics offered to L. Palmer . 1976
• with Yves Duhoux : Linear B / A 1984 Survey . 1985
• La Linguistica dell 'Ottocento . 1996
• Nineteenth Century Linguistics . 1998
• with Yves Duhoux (Ed.): A Companion to Linear B: Mycenaean Greek Texts and Their World. Peeters, Louvain-La-Neuve, Walpole, MA 2008/2011.
  • Volume 1. 2008 (Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l'Institut de Linguistique de Louvain). - Review of: John G. Younger, in: American Journal of Archeology October 2009 (113.4) .
  • Volume 2. 2011 (Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l'Institut de Linguistique de Louvain, 127). - (In it: Thomas G. Palaima: Scribes, scribal hands and palaeography. Chapter 12, pp. 3-136, ( online ( Memento from October 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )) (PDF)). - Review of: John G. Younger, in: American Journal of Archeology July 2012 (116.3) .

literature

• JHW Penney (Ed.): Indo-European Perspectives: Studies in Honor of Anna Morpurgo Davies. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-925892-9 . - Review by Anne Mahoney, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.06.25 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Anna Morpurgo Davies in the catalog of the German National Library
• Anna Morpurgo Davies at the Faculty of Linguistics, Oxford (English)
• Anna Morpurgo Davies, June 21, 1937 - September 27, 2014. Somerville College, University of Oxford, September 28, 2014, accessed January 5, 2018 .  (Obituary)
• Debrett’s : Anna Elbina Laura Margherita MORPURGO DAVIES (short biography and selected bibliography in English)