Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski

Wilhelmina Mary Feemster Jashemski (July 10, 1910 – 24 December 2007) was a noted scholar of the ancient site of Pompeii, where her archaeological investigations focused on the evidence of gardens and horticulture in the ancient city.

Jashemski studied at York College, the University of Nebraska, and the University of Chicago. She began teaching in 1935 and served on the faculty of the University of Maryland (1946–1980).

Jashemski's work at Pompeii, Boscoreale, and Oplontis began in 1961 and continued until 1984. She also worked on the excavation of the gardens of the villa of Hadrian at Tivoli. Jashemski is viewed as a pioneer of the field of garden archaeology in the ancient Mediterranean. She was awarded the Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement by the Archaeological Institute of America in 1996.

Her husband was the physicist Stanley A. Jashemski who photographed many of her excavations for publication.

Works

* "The origins and history of the pro-consular and the propraetorian imperium to 27 BC" (Chicago, 1950).
* with E. B. MacDougall "Ancient Roman gardens" Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (7th : 1979).
* "The Gardens of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and the Villas Destroyed by Vesuvius" 2 vol. (1979, 1993).
* [festschrift] Robert Curtis ed. "Studia Pompeiana & classica in honor of Wilhelmina F. Jashemski" 2 v. (1989).
* "A Pompeian herbal : ancient and modern medicinal plants" (Texas, 1999).
* ed. with Frederick Meyer "The natural history of Pompeii" (Cambridge, 2002).