Henry Rudolph Immerwahr (February 28, 1916, in Breslau, then Germany – September 15, 2013, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina) was a German-born American Classicist known for his work on Attic scripts[1] and Greek epigraphy.[2]
Prof. Henry Rudolph Immerwahr | |
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| Born | Heinrich Rudolf Immerwahr February 28, 1916 |
| Died | September 15, 2013 (aged 97) |
| Occupation | Classical scholars |
| Known for | Greek epigraphy |
| Spouse | Sara Anderson Immerwahr |
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Life
editThe eldest son of Kurt Immerwahr and Johanna Freund Immerwahr, he was educated at the University of Florence (1934-1938).[3] Immerwahr then emigrated to the United States, earned a Ph.D. at Yale University in 1942 and then performed military service for three years during World War II.[3] He returned to Yale after the war and taught there until 1957, at which point he moved to the University of North Carolina.[4] Immerwahr served as Professor of Greek in the Department of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1957 until his retirement in 1977, at which point he became Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, serving in that capacity until 1982.[5]
Immerwahr received a Guggenheim fellowship to study at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in 1946.[4]
He was married to the archaeologist Sara Anderson Immerwahr.[6]
Scholarship
edit- 1966. Form and thought in Herodotus. Cleveland, Published for the American Philological Association [Chapel Hill, N.C.] by the Press of Western Reserve University.
- 1990. Attic Script: a Survey. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- 2009. Corpus of Attic vase inscriptions. 2nd ed.
Necrology
edit- Stadter, Philip A. "HENRY R. IMMERWAHR†" Gnomon 86. Bd., H. 2 (2014), p. 191 (1 page)
References
edit- ^ Henry R. Immerwahr (1990). Attic script: a survey. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-813223-3.
- ^ "Henry Rudolph Immerwahr - Department of Classics". Classics.unc.edu. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- ^ a b "Henry R. Immerwahr, 97, emeritus professor of classics at the University of North Carolina, passed away peacefully at the Carol Woods Retirement Community on September 15, 2013 after a short illness" (PDF). Chebeague.org. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- ^ a b "Henry R. Immerwahr - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-07-08.
- ^ "IMMERWAHR, Heinrich Rudolf (Later Henry Rudolph)".
- ^ "Sara Immerwahr - Department of Classics". Classics.unc.edu. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
External links
edit- Henry Rudolph Immerwahr at the Database of Classical Scholars
- "Henry R. Immerwahr - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". 14 July 2014. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- Henry Rudolph Immerwahr at Find a Grave
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