Medea Norsa

Medea Norsa
Born 26 August 1877 Edit this on Wikidata
Trieste Edit this on Wikidata
Died 28 July 1952 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 74)
Florence Edit this on Wikidata

Medea Vittoria Irma Norsa (1877–1952) was an Italian papyrologist and philologist[1] She headed the Istituto Papirologico from 1935 to 1949.[2]

Norsa was born in Trieste in 1877 to Michele and Silvia Krosna. She studied at a girls' school in Trieste before going to university in Vienna and then Florence, initially to study Italian literature.[3] In 1906, she earned a degree and began to collaborate with her mentor Girolamo Vitelli on the Papiri Greci e Latini della Società Italiana (PSI); this collaboration continued up to Vitelli's death in 1935 and resulted in 11 volumes of the work.[3]

Norsa died in Florence in 1952.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Breaking Ground: Pioneering Women Archaeologists
  2. ↑ Istituto Papirologico site (English version)
  3. 1 2 3 Criscuolo, Lucia. Biography of Medea Norsa



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