Anna Morpurgo Davies
Anna Morpurgo Davies | |
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| Born | Anna Elbina Morpurgo 21 June 1937 Milan, Kingdom of Italy |
| Died | 27 September 2014 (aged 77) |
| Education | University of Rome La Sapienza |
| Occupation | Professor of Comparative Philology |
| Employer(s) | Somerville College University of Oxford |
| Known for | Studies of Indo-European, Greek, and Anatolian linguistics; Linear B; history of linguistics |
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Anna Elbina Morpurgo Davies DBE FSA FBA (21 June 1937 – 27 September 2014) was an Italian philologist who specialised in comparative Indo-European linguistics. She spent her career at Oxford University, where she was the Professor of Comparative Philology and Fellow of Somerville College.