Gabrielle-Charlotte Patin [SEP] father
Gabrielle-Charlotte Patin
Gabrielle-Charlotte Patin, (born 1666) was a French numismatist, writer and painter during the 17th century.
Granddaughter of medical doctor and letter writer Guy Patin, daughter of medical doctor and numismatist Charles Patin and moralist writer Madeleine Patin, as well as sister of the writer and art critic Charlotte-Catherine Patin, Gabrielle-Charlotte Patin published a Latin work on Phoenician numismatics: "De Phœnice in numismate imperatoris Caracallæ expressa epistola" (Venise, 1683, in-4°).
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, lecturer in medicine at Padua, applied for his daughter Gabrielle-Charlotte [Carla Gabriella] Patin to begin a degree. The university, supported by Gianbattista Cornaro-Piscopia, changed its statutes to prohibit women from graduation. The next female doctorate was granted by the University of Bologna in 1732 to Laura Bassi.
Cornaro's death was marked by memorial services in Venice, Padua, Siena and Rome. The published two memorial volumes of tributes by members: one to mark her degree, and the other her death.