Tatiana Wedenison

Tatiana Wedenison (born 1864) was the first woman in Italy to attempt earning an engineering degree, the first to enrol at the Polytechnic University of Milan , and one of the first modern Italian women to earn a university degree.

Life and career

Wedenison was born in Milan in 1864. Her father was a shopkeeper. and later transferred to the Università di Pavia, from which she graduated with a degree in natural sciences in 1893 or 1894. She was followed by Emma Strada, who in 1908 became the first woman to obtain a civil engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Turin, and Gaetanina Calvi, who in 1913 became the first female engineering graduate of the Polytechnic University of Milan.