Gertrud Seidmann

Gertrud Seidmann, FSA, FRSA (16 September 1919 – 15 February 2013) was an Austrian-British linguist and jewellery historian, specialising in engraved gems.

Gertrud Seidmann

FSA FRSA
Born(1919-09-16)16 September 1919
Died15 February 2013(2013-02-15) (aged 93)
AwardsGoethe Medal
Academic background
Alma materWolfson College, Oxford
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
InstitutionsBattersea County School,
University of Oxford,
University of Southampton

Her first career was as a linguist, teaching German and applied linguistics at Battersea County School, the University of Oxford, and the University of Southampton: she was awarded the Goethe Medal in 1968. She formally retired in 1979 and dedicated herself to researching jewellery and engraved gems, becoming a research associate of the Institute of Archaeology and of Oxford's Beazley Archive.[1][2][3][4]

In 2004, Seidmann matriculated into Wolfson College, Oxford to study for a Master of Letters (MLitt) research degree. She thereby became the University of Oxford's oldest ever student. She went on to undertake research towards a doctorate in the School of Archaeology. In 2011, due to ill health and at the age of 91, she ended her studies and was awarded a Certificate of Graduate Attainment by the university.[2][3]

Honours

In 1985, Seidmann was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).[1] She was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) in 1986.[1]

In 1999, a Festschrift was published in her honour: it was titled Classicism to Neo-classicism: Essays dedicated to Gertrud Seidmann, and was edited by Martin Henig and Dimitris Plantzos.[5]

Selected works
  • "Nathaniel Marchant, Gem-engraver, 1739-1816". The Volume of the Walpole Society. 53: 1–105. 1987.
  • Seidmann, Gertrud (1997). "Person seals in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England and their antecedents". In Collon, Dominique (ed.). 7000 years of seals. London: British Museum Press. ISBN 9780714111438.

References
  1. "Gertrud Seidmann". The Times. 11 March 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  2. Barton, Laura (23 June 2006). "In a class of her own". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  3. "Gertrud Seidmann awarded a Certificate of Graduate Attainment". School of Archaeology. University of Oxford. 28 March 2011. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  4. "Gertrud Seidmann (Biographical details)". British Museum.
  5. Henig, Martin; Plantzos, Dimitris, eds. (1999). Classicism to Neo-classicism: Essays dedicated to Gertrud Seidmann. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports. ISBN 978-1841710099.
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