Giacomo Lumbroso
Giacomo Lumbroso · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Italian philologist and historian of Greco-Roman Egypt and papyrology.
1844, Italy — 1925, Italy
Italy (Pisa · Rome)
Giacomo Lumbroso is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Italian philologist and historian of Greco-Roman Egypt and papyrology.
Lumbroso was an Italian historian and pioneering papyrologist of Greco-Roman and Ptolemaic Egypt, a professor at Pisa and Rome whose archival methods advanced the study of the Hellenistic economy and administration. He belonged to a distinguished Sephardic Jewish family, documented in the Jewish Encyclopedia. He was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei.
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Italian philologist and historian of Greco-Roman Egypt and papyrology.
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