Mary the Jewess

First Western alchemist (1st century)

Mary or Maria the Jewess (Latin: Maria Hebraea), also known as Mary the Prophetess (Latin: Maria Prophetissa) or Maria the Copt (Arabic: مارية القبطية, romanized: Māriyya al-Qibṭiyya), was an early alchemist known from the works of Zosimos of Panopolis (fl. c. 300 CE) and other authors in the Greek alchemical tradition. On the basis of Zosimos's comments, she lived between the first and third centuries CE in Alexandria. Marilyn French, F. Sherwood Taylor and Edmund Oscar von Lippmann list her as one of the first alchemical writers, dating her works at no later than the first century.

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