Zsófia Torma

Zsófia Torma (26 September 1832 - 14 November 1899) was 'n Hongaarse argeoloog, antropoloog en paleontoloog.

Torma is gebore in Csicsókeresztúr, Beszterce-Naszód County, Oostenryk-Hongarye (vandag Cristeştii Ciceului, Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Roemenië). Sy was grootliks selfopgelei. Die simbole en skrifte op klei voorwerpe wat sy tydens 'n uitgrawing in Hunyad County gevind het, was 'n argeologiese sensasie. Sy het ook artefakte van die 6 000 tot 7 000 jaar oue Tordos-kultuur gevind, waarvan sommige met Vinca-simbole bedek was.

Haar bekendste werk, die "Ethnographische Analogien", is in 1894 in Jena gepubliseer.

Torma het 'n belangrike rol gespeel in die stigting van die Nasionale Museum van Transsylvaniese Geskiedenis van Kolozsvár (hedendaagse Cluj-Napoca), aan wie sy haar argeologiese versameling in haar testament bemaak het. Op 24 Mei 1899 het sy die eerste vrou geword om 'n eredoktor by die Babeş-Bolyai Universiteit te word. Sy is in 1899 in Szászváros (hedendaagse Orăştie) oorlede.

Sien ook 
 Paleontologie
 Geologie
 Argeologie
 Antropologie

Verwysings

Eksterne skakels 
 Coltofean, Laura. 2017. Zsófia Torma: A pioneer of prehistoric archaeology in nineteenth-century Transylvania. In: Cs. Szabó, V. Rusu-Bolindeț, G. T. Rustoiu, M. Gligor (eds.): Adalbert Cserni and His Contemporaries. The Pioneers of Alba Iulia and Beyond. Mega Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2017: 327-354.
Coltofean, Laura. 2015. Object Photography in 19th Century Archaeology. The Photographs of Zsófia Torma's Archaeological Collection. Brukenthal. Acta musei X.1: 35-48.
 Coltofean, Laura. 2015. Importanța ediției a opta a Congrès international dꞌanthropologie et dꞌarchéologie préhistoriques în dezvoltarea arheologiei preistorice în Transilvania secolului al XIX-lea / The Importance of CIAAP 1876 in the Development of Prehistoric Archaeology in 19th Century Transylvania. In: ArheoVest, Nr. III / No. III: In Memoriam Florin Medeleț (1943-2005), Interdisciplinaritate în Arheologie [Interdisciplinarity in Archaeology], Timişoara, 28 noiembrie 2015 / 28 November 2015, Vol. 2: Metode Interdisciplinare și Istorie [Interdisciplinary Methods and History]: 1035-1055. 
 Coltofean, Laura. 2014. Unveiling Zsófia Torma. The Diary of a Woman, an Archaeologist and a Visionary. In: Marler, Joan (ed.), Fifty Years of Tărtăria Excavations. Festschrift in Honor of Gheorghe Lazarovici on the Occasion of His 73rd Birthday. Sebastopol: 258-273.
 Coltofean, Laura. 2012. When Passion is Stronger than Death… Zsófia Torma’s Reflections. Brukenthalia. Romanian Cultural History Review 2: 67-77.

Antropoloë
Argeoloë
Geboortes in 1832
Paleontoloë
Sterftes in 1899