Bettisia Gozzadini

Bettisia Gozzadini
Lithograph of a young woman in a mediaeval head-dress
Nineteenth-century lithograph depicting Gozzadini; no life portraits are known
Born1209
Bologna
Died2 November 1261 (aged 51–52)
Budrio
Other names
  • Battisia Gozzadini[1]
  • Betina Gozzadina[2]: 89 
  • Bitisia Gozzadina[3]
  • Bitisia Gozzadini[4]: 445 
OccupationLawyer
Known forReputedly the first woman to lecture at a university

Bettisia Gozzadini also known as Bitisia Biltisia and Beatrix,[5] (1209 – 2 November 1261)[6]: 11  was a Bolognese jurist who lectured at the University of Bologna from about 1239.[7] She is thought to be the first woman to have taught at a university.

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  5. ^ Vanacker & van Deinsen (2022). Portraits and Poses-Female Intellectual Authority, Agency and Authorship in Early Modern Europe. Leuven University Press. p. 291. ISBN 9789462703308.
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