Brill’s New Pauly Supplements I - Volume 6 : History of classical Scholarship - A Biographical Dictionary
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Subject: Classical Studies
Edited by: Peter Kuhlmann (Göttingen) and Helmuth Schneider (Kassel)
This compendium gives a comprehensive overview of the history of classical studies. Alphabetically arranged, it provides biographies of over 700 scholars from the fourteenth century onwards who have made their mark on the study of Antiquity. These include the lives, careers and works of classical philologists, archaeologists, ancient historians, students of epigraphy, numismatics, papyrology, Egyptology and the Ancient Near East, philosophers, anthropologists, social scientists, art historians, collectors and writers. The biographies put the scholars in their social, political and cultural contexts while focusing on their scholarly achievements and their contributions to modern classical scholarship.
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This compendium gives a comprehensive overview of the history of classical studies. Alphabetically arranged, it provides biographies of over 700 scholars from the fourteenth century onwards who have made their mark on the study of Antiquity. These include the lives, careers and works of classical philologists, archaeologists, ancient historians, students of epigraphy, numismatics, papyrology, Egyptology and the Ancient Near East, philosophers, anthropologists, social scientists, art historians, collectors and writers. The biographies put the scholars in their social, political and cultural contexts while focusing on their scholarly achievements and their contributions to modern classical scholarship.
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Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin
(801 words)
British ancient historian. Born Birkenhead 9. 3. 1904, died 9. 4. 1970 aboard ship on a passage from Brindisi to Patras. Educated at Cheltenham College and New College, Oxford; 1926–1946 fellow of All Souls’ College, Oxford, while also (1929–1934) reader in ancient history at the Univ. of Cairo. 1939–1946 lecturer in ancient history at Wadham College, Oxford; 1946–1951 prof. of ancient history at Univ. College, London; 1951–1970 prof. of ancient history at Univ. of Cambridge and fellow of Jesus College. Career, works and influence After an outstanding degree in
Literae humaniores at …
Jowett, Benjamin
(442 words)
British Hellenist and theologian. Born London 15. 4. 1817, died Headley Park (Hampshire) 1. 10. 1893. School in London; studied at Balliol College, Oxford. From 1838 fellow there, from 1842 tutor. 1842 ordination as deacon in the Anglican Church; 1845 ordination as priest. From 1855 Regius Prof. of Greek at Oxford. Master of Balliol College from 1870. Work and influence J. learned Latin and Greek at school and continued his studies at Balliol College with great success from 1836. At the time, the college was the intellectual centre of the Univ. of Oxford…
Jullian, Camille
(560 words)
French ancient historian. Born to Protestantparents in Marseille, 15. 3. 1859, died Paris 12. 12. 1933. Studied from 1877 at the Paris
École normale supérieure; teachings Paul Vidal de la Blache, Numa D. Fustel de Coulanges (whose works J. later edited), Gaston Boissier and Ernest Desjardins. 1880 placed first in history in competition for the
agrégation. 1880–1882 member of the
École française de Rome. Studied at Berlin, attending Theodor Mommsen’s epigraphy classes. 1883
Thèse de doctorat [1]; [2], then teaching work at Univ. of Bordeaux. 1886 prof. of Greek and Lati…
Junius, Franciscus
(847 words)
German-Dutch art critic, philologist and antiquarian. Born Heidelberg 1589, died Wind-¶ sor 1677, in the house of his nephew Isaac Vossius. Latin school at Dordrecht; 1608 student at Leiden; 1616 pastor in Hillegersburg (NL). 1620 by way of Paris to England, active at Oxford from 1621 with Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel. Living alternately in the Netherlands and England from 1642. Career and works J. was born into a Calvinist family that had moved from Bourges initially to Heidelberg, then to the Netherlands. His father, Franciscus J. the Elder, was a theolo…
Junker, Hermann
(686 words)
German Egyptologist. Born Bendorf/Rhein 29. 11. 1877. Died Vienna 9. 1. 1962. Studied at Trier, Bonn, Berlin. 1900 holy orders at Trier. 1903 doctorate, 1906 habil. at Vienna. 1907 lecturer at Univ. in Vienna, 1912 prof. ord.; from 1914 a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. 1921/22 dean of the faculty of philosophy and 1923 founder of the
Institut für Ägyptologie und Afrikanistik at the Univ. of Vienna. 1929–1938 director of the DAI in Cairo. 1934 prof. ord. at Fuad I Univ. in Cairo. From 1935 member of the senate at Vienna. Honorary doctorates from Univs. of Würzburg and Dublin. Career…