María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

María Rosa Lida de Malkiel

Argentine philologist

Date of Birth: 07-Nov-1910

Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Date of Death: 25-Sep-1962

Profession: writer, university teacher, linguist, classical philologist

Nationality: United States, Argentina

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, born Maria Rosa Lida (November 7, 1910 – September 25, 1962), was an Argentine philologist.
Notable as an Hispanist medievalist, she came to the United States on a Rockefeller Foundation program of study.
Beginning in 1947, Lida de Malkiel lectured for many years in the US, including at Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley, and Stanford.
An advisor to the editorial boards of two professional journals, in the 1950s she was admitted to the Real Academia Española and the Academia Argentina de Letras.