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433: 31: 231:). In her will, she left her collection of 10,387 archeological pieces to the Transylvanian National Museum's Museum of Medals and Antiquities. On 24 May 1899, just a few months before her death, she became the first female to be named an honorary doctor at the Kolozsvári m. kir. Ferencz József Tudomány, what is today 211:
Torma had severe financial problems caused by her self-funded excavations. She also struggled with archeologists in her own country, who "ridiculed and ignored her, as a woman and amateur in the field of archaeology, as well as her groundbreaking ideas and efforts." However, her finds and writings
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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:
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Zsófia Torma was the first to discover the Neolithic culture of Tordos, drawing attention to the connection between the signs of Tordos and the Assyrian-Babylonian literacy, the penetration of Sumerian literature through Southeastern Europe. She worked in Tordos for twenty years, more than thirty
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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
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In Memoriam Florin Medeleț (1943-2005), Interdisciplinaritate în Arheologie [Interdisciplinarity in Archaeology], Timişoara, 28 noiembrie 2015 / 28 November 2015
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years before the discovery of the carefully collected, extremely valuable finds and dissertations on them, as the Vinca-Tordos culture was only explored in 1908.
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Marler, Joan (ed.), Fifty Years of Tărtăria Excavations. Festschrift in Honor of Gheorghe Lazarovici on the occasion of his 73rd Birthday, 2014
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Coltofean, Laura. 2015. Object Photography in 19th Century Archaeology. The Photographs of Zsófia Torma's Archaeological Collection.
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Coltofean, Laura. 2014. Unveiling Zsófia Torma. The Diary of a Woman, an Archaeologist and a Visionary. In: Marler, Joan (ed.),
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Fifty Years of Tărtăria Excavations. Festschrift in Honor of Gheorghe Lazarovici on the Occasion of His 73rd Birthday
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became an archaeological sensation. She also found artifacts of the 6,000- to 7,000-year-old
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Coltofean, Laura. 2012. When Passion is Stronger than Death… Zsófia Torma’s Reflections.
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found acceptance among foreign researchers who engaged in long correspondences with her.
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Metode Interdisciplinare și Istorie [Interdisciplinary Methods and History]
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Comparative Archaeologies A Sociological View of the Science of the Past
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Torma was mostly self-educated. In 1875, she was encouraged by
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Austria-Hungary
Cristeștii Ciceului
Orăștie
Hungarian
Archaeologist
anthropologist
paleontologist
archaeologist
anthropologist
paleontologist
Csicsókeresztúr
Beszterce-Naszód County
Austria-Hungary
Cristeștii Ciceului
Bistrița-Năsăud County
Romania
Hunedoara County
Flóris Rómer
hu
Turdaș
Mureș River
Hunyad County
Tordos culture
Vinča symbols
Jena
National Museum of Transylvanian History
Cluj-Napoca
Babeș-Bolyai University
Orăștie

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