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Orsolina Montevecchi

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Orsolina Montevecchi (18 March 1911 – 1 February 2009) was an Italian papyrologist.

Life and career

Montevecchi was born in Gambettola, Forlì-Cesena. She graduated from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore with a thesis on sociological research in the papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt.[1] Since 1950, she has worked as a lecturer and then as a professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, where she spent the rest of her career. She was the author of numerous publications on the topic of Graeco-Roman Egypt, sociological studies in papyrology and provenance studies.[2][3]

She was also the chief editor of Italian journal of Egyptology and papyrology, Aegyptus (1969–2002) and a member of the Association Internationale de Papyrologues (AIP).[4] She died in Milan in 2009, aged 97.

References

  1. ↑ Balconi, Carla. "L'opera scientifica di Orsolina Montevecchi". Aegyptus. 91: 151–156.
  2. ↑ Montevecchi, Orsolina. "L'"altro" in età tolemaica e romana". Aegyptus. 82: 113–117.
  3. ↑ Montevecchi, O. (1998). La provenienza di P. Oxy. 984. Aegyptus, 78(1), 49-76
  4. ↑ "Orsolina Montevecchi, un ricordo indelebile" (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-03-08.