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British ancient historian. Born Lowestoft 9. 3. 1930, died Cambridge 26. 12. 2005. Studied law and classical philology at Cambridge 1949–1952; 1955–1957 assistant lecturer in classics at Bedford College, London. 1957–1977 prof. of ancient history at Univ. of Manchester; 1977–1995 prof. at Univ. of Pennsylvania. Career, works and influence G., who came from a wealthy family of Suffolk Quakers, went to the renowned King’s College, Cambridge, where his teachers included Sir Frank Adcock. He went on to lecture at the Univ. of Munich and the Britis…

French antiquarian and anthropologist. Born Paris 26. 4. 1943, died Argenteuil 6. 4. 2003. Studied at École normale supérieure de Sèvres; Agrégation de Lettres classiques 1965; 1970–1975 assistant in Greek history at Univ. of Strasbourg, then assistant at École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS); 1977 Thèse de doctorat with Jean-Pierre Vernant. 1981–1994 Directeur d’études and from 1987 prof. of history and anthropology of the Greek polis at EHESS. Severe stroke 1994. Work and influence L. was one of the leading figures in French historical anthropology. She…

German ancient historian. Born Lübeck 8. 8. 1830, died Freiburg im Breisgau 9. 6. 1900. 1847–1851 studied theology, philology and history at Leipzig and Berlin; 1851 doctorate at Berlin. 1852 named Gymnasium teacher at Katharineum in Lübeck. 1877/78 prof. ext., 1878–1884 prof. ord. in universal history at Univ. of Palermo; 1884–1897 prof. of ancient history at Univ. of Naples. Career and works H., the son of a factory owner, studied in Leipzig (1847–1849) and Berlin (1849–1851), graduating with a diss. on the Ethics and Politics of Aristotle, to become a teacher of French at the Katharine…

German-French jurist and ancient historian. Born Berlin 3. 6. 1902, died Linz 26. 12. 1979. Studied law at Breslau and Heidelberg; 1925 doctorate of law at Breslau. 1929–1933 studied ancient history and classical philology at Berlin. Emigrated 1933; 1933–1937 studied ancient history at the Sorbonne in Paris. From 1956, academic director of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris; from 1961 also of the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. Biography and scholarly career P. was born into a Jewish family of entrepreneurs. His father owned a Berlin tex…

Canadian ancient historian. Born 17. 2. 1900 in Corbetton, Ontario, died 17. 9. 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. BA in classics 1921 at Univ. of Toronto; MA there 1922. 1925–1928 studied at Johns Hopkins Univ. in Baltimore; doctorate there 1928. 1928–1965 prof. at Bryn ¶ Mawr College, Pennsylvania. 1965–1970 prof. of Latin at the Univ. of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Background, work and influence B. was born into a Canadian farming family of Anglo-Irish origin. His scholarly career began in 1921 at the Univ. of Toronto. His meeting with Tenney Frank at …

French epigraphist and ancient historian. Born Château-Thierry (Aisne) 15. 4. 1861, died Paris 22. 9. 1932. Studied history; 1882–1885 member of the École française d’Athènes and its director from 1904. 1888–1904 lecturer in archaeology at Lyon 1904–1912 and 1912–1923 teaching work at the Faculté des Lettres of the Sorbonne in Paris; 1923–1927 prof. of Hellenistic antiquity there. 1927–1932 prof. of Greek epigraphy at Collège de France. From 1925, member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. Career, works and influence Aged just 21, H. became a member of the renowned Éc…