George M.A. Hanfmann

George Maxim Anossov Hanfmann
Born November 1911
St. Petersburg, Russia
Died March 13, 1986(1986-03-13)
Watertown, Massachusetts

George Maxim Anossov Hanfmann (born November 1911, in St. Petersburg, Russia; died March 13, 1986, in Watertown, Massachusetts) was a famous archaeologist and scholar of ancient Mediterranean art.[1][2]

Biography

He studied at the University of Jena under Ernst Buschor and Hans Diepolder, and then at the University of Berlin with Werner Jaeger, where he earned his first doctorate. He emigrated to the United States, becoming naturalized in 1940. Hanfmann became a student of David Moore Robinson, earning a second Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1935. During World War Two he served in the Office of War Information in London as radio editor. He returned to Harvard and became a curator at the Fogg Art Museum. By 1956 he had progressed at Harvard from junior fellow to full professor. He established the Department of Ancient Art and trained students, including Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III. In 1958 he began excavations at ancient Sardis and continued there until 1976.[3][4] In 1978 he received the Gold Medal from the Archaeological Institute of America. He retired from Harvard in 1982.[5]

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References

  1. Medwid, Linda M. The Makers of Classical Archaeology: A Reference Work. (New York, 2000) pp. 138–140.
  2. George M. A. Hanfmann; A. H. Detweiler (1966). Sardis Through the Ages.
  3. George M. A. Hanfmann (1 October 2013). Letters from Sardis. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-33242-3.
  4. David Gordon Mitten; John Griffiths Pedley; Jane Ayer Scott (1971). Studies presented to George M.A. Hanfmann. Verlag P. von Zabern.
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