Ursicina Martínez
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Ursicina Martínez Gallego | |
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| Born | April 20, 1906 |
| Died | December 14, 2004 (aged 98) |
| Occupation | Archaeologist |
Ursicina Martínez Gallego [1] (April 20, 1906 – December 14, 2004) was a Spanish archaeologist.
Martínez was born on April 20, 1906, in Santa Cristina de la Polvorosa, in the province of Zamora, Spain. Her parents, from the region of La Carballeda, owned a grocery store. Her father died when she was eleven years old.[2]
Martínez attended high school in Benavente. In 1922, she began studying education at the Normal School of Zamora at the insistence of her mother, despite wanting to attend university. A year later, she left the Normal School and enrolled in Philosophy and Letters in 1923 at the Central University of Madrid, being one of the first women who could access higher education in Spain. She was a student of Julián Besteiro, Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz, Elís Tormo, and Manuel Gómez-Moreno, among others. She graduated with an Extraordinary Award and began her doctoral thesis The Travels of Marco Polo, though she did not finish it.