Anna Morpurgo Davies

Anna Morpurgo Davies
Born
Anna Morpurgo

(1937-06-21)21 June 1937
Milan, Italy
Died27 September 2014(2014-09-27) (aged 77)
NationalityItalian
EducationUniversity of Rome La Sapienza
OccupationProfessor of Comparative Philology
Employer(s)Somerville College
University of Oxford
Known forStudies of Indo-European, Greek, and Anatolian linguistics; Linear B; history of linguistics
Spouse
(m. 1962; div. 1978)

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.