Jacqueline de Romilly, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jacqueline de Romilly

French hellenist and philologist

Date of Birth: 26-Mar-1913

Place of Birth: Chartres, Centre-Val de Loire, France

Date of Death: 18-Dec-2010

Profession: historian, translator, essayist, classical philologist, hellenist

Nationality: Greece, France

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Jacqueline Worms de Romilly (French: [??miji]; née David, 26 March 1913 – 18 December 2010) was a Franco-Greek philologist, classical scholar and fiction writer.
She was the first woman nominated to the Collège de France, and in 1988, the second woman to enter the Académie française. She is primarily known for her work on the culture and language of ancient Greece, and in particular on Thucydides.