Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (born June 25, 1646 in Venice , † July 26, 1684 in Padua ) was a Venetian Benedictine oblate and scholar. She was the first woman in the world to receive a doctorate degree .
Life
Piscopia was the fifth of seven children of the procurator of San Marco (Sestiere di Venezia) , Gianbattista Corner, and his future wife Zanetta Boni. Already in early childhood Piscopia received lessons in the classical languages Latin and Greek , to which later Hebrew , Arabic , French and Spanish were added. She was also interested in mathematics , philosophy and theology . She despised the frivolity of Venetian society and therefore became a Benedictine wafer at a young age.
In 1677 Piscopia, who wanted to devote herself entirely to the sciences, had her first public dispute at the University of Padua . The efforts of her philosophy professor Carlo Rinaldini , a friend of Galileo Galilei , to get her a doctorate in theology were unsuccessful: A woman had to be silent in the church ( 1 Cor 14.34 EU ) and could therefore not receive a teaching license, which was especially the case Bishop of Padua and Cardinal Gregorio Barbarigo represented. Finally, a compromise was reached that allowed Elena to do a PhD on a philosophical topic from Aristotelian logic . On June 25, 1678, she was the first woman in the world to receive a doctorate.
She spent the next six years writing, translating, studying, lecturing, and debating. Since 1669 she had joined various important academies as a member, such as the Academy of Ricovrati in Padua and the academies in Rome , Venice and Siena .
Piscopia died of tuberculosis at the age of 38 . Her grave is in the Basilica of Santa Giustina in Padua . Her papers appeared in Parma in 1688 .
The impact crater Piscopia with a diameter of 26 km on the planet Venus was named after Elena Lucrezia.
literature
- Renzo Derosas: Corner, Elena Lucrezia In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani . Volume 29, 1983.
- Herbert Kater: Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia. First woman in the world to receive a doctorate. Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 37 (1992), p. 329.
Web links
- Elisabeth Dickmann : Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia. In: FemBio .
- Sarah Thieling: Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia. In: Biographies of Women Mathematicians. February 25, 2016 (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Abbazia di Santa Giustina. In: Pandovando Magazine. January 17, 2013, accessed June 25, 2021 (Italian).
- ↑ Piscopia on Venus. In: planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov . May 15, 2010, accessed June 25, 2021 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Cornaro Piscopia, Elena Lucrezia |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Piscopia; Corner |
SHORT DESCRIPTION | Italian philosopher |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1646 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Venice |
DATE OF DEATH | July 26, 1684 |
PLACE OF DEATH | Padua |