Louise Canberg Youtie (1909 – 18 February 2004) was an American

papyrologist Papyrology is the study of manuscripts of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, etc., preserved on portable media from antiquity, the most common form of which is papyrus, the principal writing material in the ancient civilizations ...

. Louise was born on August 30, 1909, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the eldest of the three daughters of Oscar and Mabel Canberg. She was educated at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

, finishing her bachelor's degree in the Department of Greek in 1932 and her master's degree in 1933. Her husband

Herbert Youtie Herbert Chaim Youtie (24 August 1904, Atlantic City - 13 February 1980, Ann Arbor) was an American papyrologist. "Youtie raised papyrological research and publication to a new exemplary standard. At the time of his death he was internationally ...

was also a noted papyrologist. She published her research work in a series of articles in the journal

Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik The ''Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik'' (commonly abbreviated ZPE; "Journal of Papyrology and Epigraphy") is a peer-reviewed academic journal which contains articles that pertain to papyrology and epigraphy. It has been described as "th ...

between 1986 and 1987. The articles have been compiled in a book form."Louise C. Youtie, P. Michigan XVII, The Michigan Medical Codex (P. Mich. 758 = P. Mich. Inv. 21). American Studies in Papyrology, volume 35. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996. Pp. xxv + 87, 13 plates, indices. ."

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