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Elena Cornaro Piscopia

1646 - 1684

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Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (US: , Italian: [ˈɛːlena luˈkrɛttsja korˈnaːro piˈskɔːpja]; 5 June 1646 – 26 July 1684) or Elena Lucrezia Corner (Venetian: [koɾˈnɛɾ], Italian: [korˈnɛr]), also known in English as Helen Cornaro, was a Venetian philosopher of noble descent who in 1678 became one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the 312th most popular philosopher (up from 335th in 2019), the 885th most popular biography from Italy (up from 919th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Italian Philosopher.

Elena Cornaro Piscopia was an Italian mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. She was the first woman to receive a doctorate from a university, and she was the first woman to teach at a university.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Elena Cornaro Piscopia ranks 312 out of 1,267. Before her are Anacharsis, Chilon of Sparta, Synesius, Roscellinus, Georges Sorel, and Henri Lefebvre. After her are Félix Guattari, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Alfred Schütz, Abu Yusuf, Mazdak, and Pietro Pomponazzi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1646, Elena Cornaro Piscopia ranks 5. Before her are Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Christian V of Denmark, Ismail Ibn Sharif, and John Flamsteed. After her are Antoine Galland, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Godfrey Kneller, Maria Francisca of Savoy, Hortense Mancini, and Charles Plumier. Among people deceased in 1684, Elena Cornaro Piscopia ranks 5. Before her are Pierre Corneille, Roger Williams, Pieter de Hooch, and Edme Mariotte. After her are Nicola Amati, Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Anne Gonzaga, Josefa de Óbidos, Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein, Antoine Gombaud, and Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Elena Cornaro Piscopia ranks 885 out of 5,161. Before her are Epicharmus of Kos (-524), Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522), Sebastiano del Piombo (1485), Filippo Maria Visconti (1392), Joseph of Cupertino (1603), and Paolo Borsellino (1940). After her are Rosalba Carriera (1673), Berengar II of Italy (900), Galeazzo Maria Sforza (1444), Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1533), Constance of Sicily, Queen of Aragon (1249), and Beatrice d'Este (1475).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Italy

Among philosophers born in Italy, Elena Cornaro Piscopia ranks 24. Before her are Hippasus (-600), Theano (-600), Julius Evola (1898), Benedetto Croce (1866), Giorgio Agamben (1942), and Marsilius of Padua (1275). After her are Pietro Pomponazzi (1462), Giovanni Gentile (1875), Antonio Negri (1933), Aristoxenus (-360), Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484), and Bartolus de Saxoferrato (1313).

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