Margaret Rickert, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Margaret Rickert

born 1888; born in La Grange, IL; University of Chicago medievalist; authored the

Date of Birth: 05-May-1888

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: medievalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Margaret Rickert (May 5, 1888 – 1973) was an American Art Historian and World War II codebreaker.
In 1954, she became the first American and first woman to author a volume in the original series of the Pelican History of Art with her title, Painting in Britain: The Middle Ages.
She was the sister of art historian Edith Rickert. Born in 1888, Richert earned her Ph.D.
from the University of Chicago in 1938.
Her dissertation was on the reconstruction of an English Carmelite missal from a scrapbook housed in the British Museum.
In 1952, she published a book based on this dissertation.During World War II, Rickert worked as a codebreaker for the U.S.
Army Signal Corps in Washington, D.C.Rickert died in 1973.
Her papers are housed at the University of Chicago Library.