# Eva Fiesel > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Eva_Fiesel > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Eva_Fiesel.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Fiesel > Source revision: 1354142489 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Etruscan scholar}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Eva Fiesel | birth_name = Eva Lehmann | birth_date = {{birth date|1891|12|23}} | birth_place = [Rostock](/source/Rostock), [German Empire](/source/German_Empire) | death_date = {{death date and age|1937|05|27|1891|12|2}} | field = [Linguistics](/source/Linguistics), [Etruscology](/source/Etruscology) | work_institution = [University of Munich](/source/University_of_Munich), [Yale University](/source/Yale_University), [Bryn Mawr College](/source/Bryn_Mawr_College) | death_place = [New York City](/source/New_York_City), [New York](/source/New_York_(state)), US | other_names = Eva Lehmann Fiesel | alma_mater = [University of Rostock](/source/University_of_Rostock) | doctoral_advisor = Gustav Herbig | known_for = Etruscan grammar, philosophy of language | spouse = Ludolf Fiesel | relatives = [Karl Leo Heinrich Lehmann](/source/Karl_Leo_Heinrich_Lehmann) (brother) }} '''Eva Fiesel''', née '''Lehmann''' (born 23 December 1891 in [Rostock](/source/Rostock); died 27 May 1937 in [New York](/source/New_York_City)), was a German [linguist](/source/linguist) and scholar of [Etruscan](/source/Etruscan_language).{{cite web |author=Vacano, Otto-Wilhelm von |date=1961 |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd119526271.html#ndbcontent |title="Fiesel, Eva" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 5 |pages=143 |access-date=2021-01-05}} ==Life== Her father [Karl Lehmann](/source/Karl_Lehmann_(jurist)) was Professor of Law and Rector of the [University of Rostock](/source/University_of_Rostock) from 1904 to 1905, and from 1911 in [Göttingen](/source/G%C3%B6ttingen). Her mother was the painter [Henni Lehmann](/source/Henni_Lehmann), and her brother [Karl Leo Heinrich Lehmann](/source/Karl_Leo_Heinrich_Lehmann) became a well-known [archaeologist](/source/archaeologist). In 1915, she married Ludolf Fiesel, a lecturer at Rostock, in Göttingen. In the winter semester of 1916–17 she enrolled at the University of Rostock. She received her PhD in 1920 from University of Rostock on the subject of grammatical gender in Etruscan, supervised by Gustav Herbig. Fiesel divorced in 1926 and subsequently raised her children as a single mother. From 1931 to 1933, Fiesel taught as a private lecturer (''[Privatdozentin](/source/Privatdozentin)'') at the [University of Munich](/source/University_of_Munich). In July 1933, despite protests, she lost her position there because she was a [Jew](/source/Jew) by birth.{{cite web |author=Adrom, Hanne |url=https://www.indogermanistik.uni-muenchen.de/downloads/diverses/geschichte_institut.pdf |title=Indogermanistik in München 1826–2001: Geschichte eines Faches und eines Institutes |pages=28–30 |access-date=2021-01-05}}{{cite web |author=Maas, Utz |url=https://zflprojekte.de/sprachforscher-im-exil/index.php/catalog/f/196-fiesel-eva/ |title=Verfolgung und Auswanderung deutschsprachiger Sprachforscher 1933-1945 |access-date=2021-01-05}} thumb|Henni Lehmann (date unknown) After a long research stay in [Florence](/source/Florence) with [Giorgio Pasquali](/source/Giorgio_Pasquali), she emigrated to the US with her thirteen-year-old daughter Ruth in 1934, one year before her brother Karl, at the invitation of linguist [Edgar Howard Sturtevant](/source/Edgar_Howard_Sturtevant). She taught as a research assistant at [Yale University](/source/Yale_University), where at the time she was the only woman to hold such a role; later she was appointed visiting professor at [Bryn Mawr College](/source/Bryn_Mawr_College), [Pennsylvania](/source/Pennsylvania), an all-female, private residential College. She died at the age of 46 of [liver cancer](/source/liver_cancer), only months after the death of her mother.{{cite web|date=1937-05-29|title=Eva Fiesel, Noted As A Philologist; Authority on Etruscan and Other Ancient Languages Is Dead in Hospital Here.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/05/29/archives/eva-fiesel-noted-as-a-philologist-authority-on-etruscan-and-other-a.html|access-date=2021-01-05|website=The New York Times}}{{Cite book|last=Hallett|first=Judith P.|author-link=Judith P. Hallett |title=Classical Scholarship and Its History|year=2021|pages=301–18}}[302] ==Works== * Fiesel, Eva. 1927. ''Die Sprachphilosophie der deutschen Romantiker'' [Philosophy of language of the German Romantics]. [Tübingen](/source/T%C3%BCbingen): J. C. B. Mohr. * Fiesel, Eva. 1931. ''Etruskisch'' [Etruscan]. Berlin/Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter. * Fiesel, Eva. 1936. [X presents a Sibilant in Early Etruscan](/source/doi%3A10.2307%2F290527). ''American Journal of Philology'' 57, 261–270. ==References== {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Fiesel, Eva}} Category:1891 births Category:1937 deaths Category:20th-century American non-fiction writers Category:20th-century American women writers Category:20th-century German non-fiction writers Category:20th-century German women writers Category:American women linguists Category:American women non-fiction writers Category:Bryn Mawr College faculty Category:German women linguists Category:Jewish American non-fiction writers Category:Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Italy Category:German emigrants to Italy Category:Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States Category:Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States Category:Jewish German women writers Category:20th-century German linguists Category:Linguists of Etruscan Category:Jewish American women writers Category:Jewish women non-fiction writers Category:20th-century American linguists --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Eva Fiesel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Fiesel) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Fiesel?action=history)). 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