Triste: Steven Jackson
Seen on various lists (by John Hilton) … we await a more formal obituary: The Classics discipline at UKZN (Howard College) regrets to announce the death of an eminent colleague. Dr. Steven Jackson (8/12/1946-26/5/2012) was lecturer and later senior lecturer at the University of Natal from 1989 to 2000. He obtained his M.A. at Queen’s [...]
d.m. Dirk Held
From the New York Times: HELD–Dirk tom Dieck, Of Westerly RI, was the Elizabeth S. Kruidenier ’48 Professor of Classics at Connecticut College in New London, CT. He took his A.B. and Ph.D in Classics at Brown University. In 1971, he joined the faculty of Connecticut College, where he served until his death from a [...]
d.m. Ross Kilpatrick
From the Globe and Mail: Slide a garland across his crown, fluff up his hair a bit and stare boldly into his bold blue eyes. You’d swear Ross Kilpatrick was a Roman lyric poet circa 30 BC, but then there was the 21st-century smile and maybe a coffee in his hand. As a classics scholar [...]
d.m. Alan Treloar
From the Sydney Morning Herald (tip o’ the pileus to Tim Parkin): Colonel Alan Treloar was one of Australia’s greatest linguists and classical scholars and also a distinguished soldier. Few could rival his knowledge as a scholar of ancient Greek and Latin. He had a special interest in the Roman poet Horace but had read [...]
d.m. William F. Wyatt
(tip o’ the pileus to Barbara Saylor Rodgers): William F. Wyatt Jr., 78, professor emeritus and former chairman of the department of classics at Brown University, and a prolific contributor to the op-ed page of The Providence Journal, died March 25 in The Miriam Hospital, Providence. Wyatt’s op-ed pieces over the years ranged across an [...]
d.m. Ernst Badian
From the Harvard Gazette: Professor Ernst Badian, John Moors Cabot Professor of History Emeritus, died on Feb. 1. After teaching in the universities of Sheffield, Durham, and Leeds in Britain, and at the State University of New York, Buffalo, he was appointed to Harvard’s Department of History in 1971, and was cross-appointed to the Department [...]
d.m. J.V. Luce
From the Irish Times: Former Trinity vice-provost and emeritus professor John Victor Luce died yesterday following a short illness at the age of 90. Better known as JV Luce, he was a senior fellow of Trinity and was the 62nd vice-provost of the university from 1987 to 1989, a position which his father, Arthur Aston [...]
d.m. Ernst Badian
Dr Badian died a few days ago and obituaries still haven’t appeared; the closest seems to be from Harvard’s Faculty page, which seems to have added a line noting his passing: Ernst Badian was Professor of History 1971-82 and John Moors Cabot Professor of History 1982-98. He passed away on February 1, 2011, at the [...]
d.m. Jacqueline de Romilly
From Le Monde (tip o’ the pileus to Dorothy King): L’académicienne Jacqueline de Romilly, spécialiste de la civilisation et de la langue grecques, est morte samedi à l’âge de 97 ans, indique, dimanche, son éditeur Bernard de Fallois. Née le 26 mars 1913 à Chartres (Eure-et-Loir) d’un père professeur de philosophie et d’une mère romancière, [...]
d.m. Yannis Sakellarakis
From Athens News: Professor Yannis Sakellarakis was born in Athens in 1936. He studied at the University of Athens and read for a PhD at Heidelberg University. He was an instructor at the universities of Athens, Heidelberg, and Hamburg. He gave lectures and presented papers in symposiums and conferences around the world, including Oslo and [...]
d.m. Honor Frost
From the Telegraph: During a career that began in the 1950s, she led many excavations in the Mediterranean and was noted for her skills as an illustrator and her work on the technicalities of ancient boat-building and nautical equipment, particularly the use of stone anchors and their typology. Among her most important projects was an [...]
d.m. Colin Austin
From Cambridge City News: Cambridge professor Colin Austin, one of the world’s leading specialists on ancient Greek texts, has died of cancer at the age of 69. Australian-born Prof Austin was educated in England and France – his mother tongue was French. He studied at Oxford and came to Trinity Hall as a research fellow [...]
d.m. Bernard Knox
From the New York Times: Bernard M. W. Knox, an authority on the works of Sophocles, a prolific scholar and the founding director of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies, died July 22 at his home in Bethesda, Md. He was 95. The cause was a heart attack, said his son, MacGregor. An American born and [...]
d.m. Mabel Lang
Image via Wikipedia It is with great sadness that I share the news that Mabel Louise Lang, Katharine E. McBride Professor Emeritus and Paul Shorey Professor Emeritus of Greek, passed away at home on Wednesday, 21 July at the age of 92. Professor Lang’s chief academic interests were Greek history and epigraphy, and she left [...]
Douglas MacDowell’s Classical Legacy
Image via Wikipedia Tip o’ the pileus to Tim Parkin for this one from the Glasgow Herald, but which appears to be only available from findarticles.com for some reason; I don’t think we had an obituary for Dr MacDowell: AN esteemed professor has stunned the Scottish academic world by leaving a pound(s)2 million fortune to [...]
d.m. Herbert H. Huxley
Image via Wikipedia From the Canadian Classical Bulletin, with the kind permission of John G. Fitch: Herbert Henry Huxley, Professor of Latin at the University of Victoria from 1968 to 1979, died on 5 May in Cambridge, England at the age of 93. Educated at Manchester Grammar School and St John’s College, Cambridge, he held [...]
d.m. Michel Janon
From the Canadian Classical Bulletin, with the kind permission of Daniel M. Millette: Michel Janon, Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Ottawa from 1986 to 1995, died on May 31st, in Marseilles, France, at the age of 72. He was educated in Algiers (History and Archaeology, 1964) and earned his doctorate at the [...]
d.m. Herbert and Eve Howe
Image via Wikipedia Herbert M. Howe, emeritus professor and former chair of both Classics and Integrated Liberal Studies (ILS), passed away on Tuesday, June 29 in Fort Atkinson. He was 98. His spouse and colleague in ILS, Evelyn Mitchell (Eve) Howe, passed away two days later, at age 94. A memorial service commemorating the Howes’ [...]
d.m. Pierre Hadot
Professeur émérite au Collège de France, historien et spécialiste de la philosophie antique, Pierre Hadot est mort dans la nuit du 24 au 25 avril. Il était âgé de 88 ans. Pierre Hadot, philosophe et historien mondialement reconnu pour ses nombreux travaux sur les écoles de pensées antiques, notamment le stoïcisme et le néoplatonisme, vient [...]
d.m. Traianos Gagos
Traianos Gagos, colleague, friend, and archivist for the University Library’s papyrus collection, passed away suddenly last week at the age of 49. “Traianos Gagos was an extraordinary scholar who helped to develop extraordinary resources both at Michigan and around the world. He was also a warm and enthusiastic friend and colleague, and we will miss [...]
d.m. David Furley
David Furley was one of the 20th century’s outstanding scholars of Greco-Roman philosophy. The quantity of Furley’s published output is perhaps modest by today’s standards. But virtually every item is a gem, and many have become classics. He was educated at Nottingham High School and at Jesus College Cambridge, where he became an Honorary Fellow. [...]
d.m. Samuel M. Paley
Samuel M. Paley, Ph. D, an internationally known archaeologist who frequently took University at Buffalo students on digs in the Middle East, died of brain cancer March 31 in his New York City home. He was 68. Dr. Paley, who led the most recent excavation last summer, had been on leave from the university since [...]
d.m. Colin Wells (obituary)
This is Susan Treggiari’s obituary of Dr. Wells as it appeared in the Canadian Classical Bulletin (used with permission): Colin Wells died on 11 March, at Bangor in North Wales, with his family around him, after a short illness. He was born on 15 November 1933. After Nottingham High School, where he was very well [...]
d.m. Gavin Townend
From the Northern Echo: FORMER colleagues will join family and friends at Durham Cathedral for the funeral of a respected classics academic next week.Professor Gavin Townend died following a recent illness at Hallgarth Nursing Home, in Durham City, on Saturday, aged 90. A widower, he survived his wife, Elspeth, by ten years.Their daughter, Julia, who [...]
d.m. Kathryn Thomas
Kathryn Thomas was the person to go to if you ever needed an ancient recipe, a translation of a Roman tomb inscription or a tour of Grecian antiquities. Thomas, an associate professor at Creighton University, spent a lifetime studying and teaching the classics to students young and old. She died of cancer Wednesday at a [...]
