María Rosa Lida de Malkiel

Argentine philologist.

Born November 7th, 1910 in Buenos Aires. [ref]

Died September 25th, 1962 at 51 years old in Oakland (cancer).

Occupations
classical philologist, linguist, medievalist, university teacher
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