Anna Morpurgo Davies#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 696 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/morpurgo_davies |
Anna Morpurgo Davies passed away September 27, 2014.
Positions Held
- 2004- Professor Emeritus of Comparative Philology, University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow, Somerville College
- 2003 - 2004 Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology, University of Oxford
- 2000 Sather Professor, Department of Classics, University of California at Berkeley
- 1975 Collitz Professor of the LSA, Linguistic Institute, Tampa, Florida
- 1971 - 2004 Fellow of Somerville College, University of Oxford
- 1971 - 2003 Professor of Comparative Philology, University of Oxford
- 1966 - 1971 Fellow of St. Hilda's College, Oxford (Honorary Fellow 1972-)
- 1964 - 1971 University Lecturer in Classical Philology, University of Oxford
- 1962 - 1963 Junior Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC (Harvard University)
- 1959 - 1961 Assistent in Classical Philology, University of Rome
- 1959 Dott. Lett. University of Rome, 1963 libera docenza University of Rome
Fields of Scholarship
- Indo-European comparative linguistics
- Historical linguistics
- History of nineteenth century linguistics
- Ancient Greek Historical Linguistics
- Mycenaean Greek
- Ancient Anatolian linguistics, especially Cuneiform and Hieroglyphic Luwian
- History of writing
Honours and Awards
- 1972 Honorary Fellow, St. Hilda's College, Oxford
- 1981 Hon. D. Litt., University of St. Andrews, Scotland
- 1985 Fellow of the British Academy (linguistics section, classical section)
- 1986 Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1988 Corresponding Member of the Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 1989 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1991 Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society
- 1992 Corresponding Member of the Institut de France (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres)
- 1993 Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America
- 1996 Premio Linceo per la linguistica, Accademia dei Lincei, Rome.
- 1998 Corresponding Member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 2001 Hon. DBE (Dame Commander of the British Empire)
- 2004 Presented with a Festschrift: Indo-European Perspectives. Studies in Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies, Edited by J.H.W. Penney, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
- 2009 Doctorat honoris causa, Université de Nancy 2
