Department:
Philosophy
Biography:
Elizabeth Anscombe read Greats at Oxford before being awarded the Sarah Smithson research studentship at Newnham College in 1942. At Cambridge, she studied under Ludwig Wittgenstein, who became a close friend and whose work she edited and translated. She was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1967 and in 1970 was appointed to the chair of Philosophy at Cambridge, with a professorial fellowship at New Hall (now Murray Edwards College).
Date of Birth/Death:
1919–2001