Marie-Hélene Marganne

Marganne obtained a diploma in historical and philological sciences from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris (1981) and a doctorate in “Philosophie et Lettres” (classical philology) from the University of Liège (1983). Her thesis on the contribution of papyrology to the history of ancient medicine was accepted summa cum laude. She has taught papyrology at the University of Liège since 1997, and in 2007 she began to teach Greek palaeography. She directed seminars in the history of medicine at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris (Sorbonne) in 1999 and in 2002. IN 1999, Marganne became a researcher at CEDOPAL - a research centre at the University of Liège specialising in information concerning Greek and Latin literary papyri - and became its director in 2000. The Royal Academy of Medicine conferred upon Marie-Hélène Marganne the Dr Frans Jonckeere Prize for the History of medicine (1982/1983). She was also awarded the Joseph Gantrelle Prize (1994/1995) of the Classe des Lettres of the Royal Academy of Belgium for L’ophtalmologie dans l’Egypte gréco-romaine d’après les papyrus littéraires grecs (Brill, 1994).

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