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Henry George Fischer
1923 - 2006 (83 years)
Henry George Fischer was an American Egyptologist and poet. Biography Born on May 10, 1923, in Philadelphia, Fischer graduated from Princeton University in 1945, after that he was sent teaching English at the American University of Beirut. Returned in the USA, he became an assistant at the University of Pennsylvania Museum and in 1955 he received a Ph.D. from the same university. Shortly after he joined an expedition to Egypt and later he became an assistant professor of Egyptology at Yale University. In 1958 he started working as an assistant curator at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, forming a bond with this place that will last for his entire life.
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Kai-Christian Bruhn
1970 - Present (54 years)
Kai-Christian Bruhn is a German computational archaeologist from the Mainz University of Applied Sciences, with expertise in geoinformatics. He was involved in the discovery of a colossal Ramses II statue in Egypt.
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Igor Dubov
1947 - 2002 (55 years)
Igor Vasilievich Dubov was a Russian archaeologist who excavated one of the largest settlements on the Volga trade route, Timerevo. Dubov was born in Leningrad but spent his young years in Yaroslavl. He studied in the Leningrad University under Mikhail Artamonov and later was a professor there. In 1972 he went to study the kurgans near Yaroslavl. It was Dubov's expedition that found in Timirevo the largest hoard of 9th-century Arabic dirhams in Eastern Europe.
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Zeynep Ahunbay
1946 - Present (78 years)
Zeynep Ahunbay is a leading Turkish scholar of antiquities. Biography Dr. Ahunbay was born in Ünye, Ordu Province, a small town in the Black Sea region of Turkey. She received her PhD in architectural history in 1976 from Istanbul Technical University, where in 1988 she became a professor of Architectural History and Preservation.
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Froma Zeitlin
1933 - Present (91 years)
Froma I. Zeitlin is an American Classics scholar. She specializes in ancient Greek literature, with particular interests in epic, drama and prose fiction, along with work in gender criticism, and the relationship between art and text in the context of the visual culture of antiquity. Zeitlin's work on establishing new approaches to Greek tragedy has been considered particularly influential.
Go to ProfileInés M. Talamantez was an ethnographer and scholar of religion. She was professor of religious studies at University of California, Santa Barbara . She was an expert on Native American religion and philosophy.
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Friederike Fless
1964 - Present (60 years)
Friederike Fless is a German classical scholar and archaeologist. In 2003, she was appointed professor of classical archaeology at the Free University of Berlin. In March 2011, she became the first woman to be appointed president of the German Archaeological Institute where she is responsible for up to 300 digs and other projects per year. For her outstanding contribution to science and science management, in November 2014 she received an honorary doctorate from the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Go to ProfileAmin Husain is a Palestinian-American activist and adjunct professor. He is the lead organizer of Decolonize This Place and the MTL+ co-founder whose organization is founded on five main issues: Free Palestine, Indigenous Struggle, Black Liberation, Global Wage Workers, and de-gentrification. He is part of the part-time faculty at New York University and focuses on resistance and liberation and postcolonial theory in his teaching. He is a founding member of Global Ultra Luxury Faction; founding member and managing editor of the magazine Tidal: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy; founding member of the collective MTL; and founding member of NYC Solidarity with Palestine.
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Gertrud Pätsch
1910 - 1994 (84 years)
Gertrud Pätsch was a German ethnologist and philologist, who rendered service in the area of Kartvelian studies. In 1937 she graduated in Munster with a degree in the Old Georgian language. After the Second World War she left the western sector of Germany for East Berlin, where she earned a habilitation at the Humboldt University of Berlin in Indonesian linguistics. She taught in Berlin until she moved to the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena in 1960, where she founded the Kartvelologian faculty. After her retirement she worked for two years at the Tbilisi State University in Georgia. She published books and many articles in journals, such as Bedi Kartlisa.
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Antonia Syson
1973 - 2018 (45 years)
Antonia Jane Reobone Syson was a British-American classical scholar specialising in the study of Virgil's Aeneid. Early life Antonia was born in Botswana whilst her father, John, was private secretary to the president, Sir Seretse Khama and her mother, Lucy, was undertaking research on rural development for the United Nations. The Sysons returned to the UK in 1973 where Antonia attended Hungerford primary school and Camden School for Girls. In 1991 Antonia went to Magdalen College, Oxford to study Classics under Oliver Taplin before, in 1995, taking her PhD in Classics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Go to ProfileBruce W. Warren is a professor of archeology at Brigham Young University. He holds a Ph.D. in the subject from the University of Arizona. He coauthored The Messiah in Ancient America with Thomas Stuart Ferguson, although it is more accurate to say Warren completed this book several years after Ferguson's death.
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Victoria Whitworth
1966 - Present (58 years)
Victoria Whitworth is a British writer, archaeologist and art historian. Her published writings, which focus on Britain in the later first millennium AD, include novels, academic works and a memoir.
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Sunhild Kleingärtner
1974 - Present (50 years)
Sunhild Kleingärtner is a German historian and archaeologist, specialising in maritime history and maritime archaeology. Career Kleingärtner was born in Wolfsburg, and began her studies at the University of Kiel in 1994. Her research focused on prehistoric archaeology, classical archaeology and art history. In 2000 she gained a Master of Arts degree, and thereafter worked as a research assistant at the Kiel Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology , where she took over the management of terrestrial and subaquatic excavations. In 2004 Kleingärtner gained her PhD from the University of Kiel, with a study of the archaeological finds at Hedeby harbour .
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Gertrude Eyifa-Dzidzienyo
Gertrude Eyifa-Dzidzienyo is the first Ghanaian woman to hold a PhD in archaeology. She currently lectures at department of archaeology and heritage studies at University of Ghana. Her research interest are centered on the interrelationship between archaeological findings and gender subjects, particularly women in Ghana. In 2017, she completed her PhD thesis on Archaeology and Heritage Management Practices in Ghana: Assessment of Tengzug Heritage Preservation and Development.
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Alicia Daneri
1942 - Present (82 years)
Alicia Daneri Rodrigo is an Argentine Egyptologist who earned a doctorate at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Daneri graduated in History at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. She completed a Master's Degree in Egyptology at the University of Toronto, Canada, and later a Doctorate at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She was Professor of Ancient Near East history at the Universidad de la Plata and Buenos Aires. She has been a researcher at CONICET, deputy director of the Egyptology Studies Program and director of the Department of Egyptology at the Instituto Multidisciplinario de Historia y Ciencias Humanas .
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Dieter Vieweger
1958 - Present (66 years)
Dieter Vieweger, a Biblical scholar and Prehistoric Archaeologist, was born in Chemnitz, East Germany in 1958. He studied Theology and Prehistoric Archaeology in Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main. After that he held a number of distinguished research and educational positions. Today he teaches at the „Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal“, and the universities of Münster and Witten-Herdecke while also being the director of scientific institutes in Jerusalem and Amman as well as in Wuppertal.
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David H. Trump
1931 - 2016 (85 years)
David Hilary Trump was a British archaeologist known for his work in the area of Maltese prehistory. In 1954, Trump helped John Davies Evans excavate at Ġgantija. He took part in the excavation of many important sites in Maltese prehistory, including the Skorba Temples and Xagħra Stone Circle . From 1958-1963, he was a curator at the National Museum of Archaeology, Malta. He retired in 1997. He was awarded the National Order of Merit by Malta in 2004.
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Patrick Johansson
1946 - Present (78 years)
Patrick Johansson Keraudren is a French-born naturalized Mexican academic, researcher and professor of Nahuatl language. He is a Doctor of Letters from the University of Paris. Since 1979, he is a researcher of the Institute of Historical Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and associate professor of Miguel Leon-Portilla in the Seminario de Cultura Nahuatl. Since 1992, he has taught Nahuatl literature at the Faculty of Arts at the same university.
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Yevhen Chernenko
1934 - 2007 (73 years)
Yevhen Vasylovych Chernenko was a Ukrainian archaeologist. He was Professor of Archaeology at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and an internationally renowned expert on Scythian archaeology.
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Matthias Untermann
1956 - Present (68 years)
Matthias Untermann is a German art historian and medieval archaeologist. Life Born in Tübingen, Untermann, son of the Indo-Germanist Jürgen Untermann, studied art history, classical archaeology and medieval history at the universities of Cologne and Zurich. In 1984, he was awarded a doctorate in medieval history under Günther Binding in Cologne with the dissertation "Kirchenbauten der Premonstratensian. Untersuchungen zum Problem einer Ordensbaukunst im 12. Jahrhundert".
Go to ProfileJesse McCarthy is an essayist, cultural critic, and assistant professor in English and African-American studies at Harvard University. Publications Non-fiction He is the author of Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?, an essay collection addressing questions such as: “What do people owe each other when debts accrued can never be repaid?”
Go to ProfileAilsa Jean Mainman is a British archaeologist and pottery specialist. Career Mainman completed her PhD at the University of Sheffield and is now a research associate at the University of York. She is a former assistant director of York Archaeological Trust.
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James Kinnier Wilson
1921 - Present (103 years)
James Vincent Kinnier Wilson was a British Assyriologist. He was Eric Yarrow Lecturer, from 1955 until 1989, and Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge. Life and career Kinnier Wilson was born in Marylebone, London on 27 November 1921. The youngest son of the neurologist Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson, he combined a skill in reconstructing Mesopotamian legends and epics with an enduring interest in the study of the organic and mental diseases of ancient Mesopotamia.
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Luca Giuliani
1950 - Present (74 years)
Luca Giuliani is a professor at the Humboldt University specialising in Greek and Roman archaeology. Career Giuliani was curator at the Berliner Antikensammlung from 1982 to 1992. He was a lecturer at the Freie Universität Institute of Classical Archaeology between 1986 and 1991 and became Professor of Greek and Roman archaeology at the University of Freiburg in 1992 through to 1998 and then at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich to 2007. Since April 2007 he has been the Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin .
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Alfonso Lacadena
1964 - 2018 (54 years)
Alfonso Lacadena García-Gallo , was a Spanish archaeologist, historian and epigraphist, one of the greatest experts in Mayan culture, researcher and specialist in writing and deciphering its texts. He was also a professor at the Complutense University of Madrid.
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Anthony Bonanno
1947 - Present (77 years)
Anthony Bonanno is a Maltese archaeologist based at the University of Malta who has published several books about the archaeology of the Maltese Islands. He was born on 4 June 1947 in the city of Żejtun. He has been on various boards and committees, including the Planning Authority, Heritage Malta and the Scientific Committee for the Conservation of the Megalithic Temples.
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Leroy Little Bear
1943 - Present (81 years)
Leroy Little Bear is a Blackfoot researcher, professor emeritus at the University of Lethbridge, founding member of Canada's first Native American Studies Department, and recognized leader and advocate for First Nations education, rights, self-governance, language and culture. He has received numerous awards and recognition for his work, including the Officer Order of Canada, and the Alberta Order of Excellence.
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Reidar Grønhaug
1938 - 2005 (67 years)
Reidar Grønhaug was a Norwegian social anthropologist. He was born in Stavanger. He took his mag.art. degree in 1967, and started working as a lector at the University of Bergen. He was promoted to associate professor in 1972, took his dr.philos. degree on the thesis Micro-Macro Relations: Social Organization in Antalya, Southern Turkey in 1975 and became a professor in 1976.
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Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
1949 - Present (75 years)
Ngahuia Te Awekotuku is a New Zealand academic specialising in Māori cultural issues and a lesbian activist. In 1972, she was famously denied a visa to visit the United States on the basis of her sexuality.
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T. Douglas Price
1945 - Present (79 years)
Theron Douglas Price is an American archaeologist who is the Weinstein Emeritus Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is well known as an authority on prehistoric Northern Europe and for his pioneering research in the field of archaeological science.
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Maria Ludwika Bernhard
1908 - 1998 (90 years)
Maria Ludwika Bernhard was a Polish classical archaeologist and a specialist in Greek Art. During the German Occupation of Poland in World War II, Bernhard was living in Warsaw and was active in the Polish Resistance Movement. After the war, Bernhard was a Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Warsaw. In 1957 she became the chair of the Department of Classical Archaeology at Jagiellonian University. She was also curator of the Ancient Art gallery at the National Museum in Warsaw from 1945 to 1962.
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Zhang Wenbin
1937 - 2019 (82 years)
Zhang Wenbin was a Chinese archaeologist, museum curator and politician. He served as Director of the National Cultural Heritage Administration and Chairman of the Chinese Museums Association. Biography Zhang was born in July 1937 in Hunyuan County, Shanxi, Republic of China. From 1958, he studied in the Department of History of Peking University, majoring in archaeology.
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Edda Bresciani
1930 - 2020 (90 years)
Edda Bresciani was an Italian Egyptologist. Life Bresciani was born in Lucca, and graduated in 1955 from the University of Pisa. She excavated at several places in Egypt and is mainly known for her work at several sites in the Faiyum, most notably the temple of Medinet Maadi. She also found and excavated a Middle Kingdom cemetery at Khelua.
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Margaret C. Miller
1955 - Present (69 years)
Margaret Christina Miller is an archaeologist and the Arthur and Renee George Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Sydney. Career Miller holds a BA from the University of British Columbia, a MA from Oxford University and an AM from Harvard University. Her 1985 PhD, also from Harvard, was titled "Perserie : the arts of the East in fifth-century Athens". She then continued her studies in the Classics at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
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Tjalling Waterbolk
1924 - 2020 (96 years)
Harm Tjalling "Tjalling" Waterbolk was a Dutch archaeologist. He was a professor of archaeology and director of the Biological-Archaeological Institute at the University of Groningen between 1954 and 1987.
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Rainer Hannig
1952 - 2022 (70 years)
Rainer Hannig was a German Egyptologist. Biography Hannig studied Egyptology, lexicography, and linguistics and earned a master's degree from the University of Tübingen in 1979. From 1984 to 1987, he was a guest professor in Egyptology at the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations and the Northeast Normal University. From 1998 to 2000, he worked at the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim. During this time, he led excursions to Egypt with the German Research Foundation. He discovered the tomb of Iri-en-achti, a king of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt.
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Mihai Pop
1907 - 2000 (93 years)
Mihai Pop was a Romanian ethnologist. He won the Herder Prize in 1967. Notable works include Obiceiuri tradiţionale româneşti and Folclor românesc . He was a member of the Romanian Academy. Biography Pop was born in Glod village in what is now the commune of Strâmtura in Maramureș County in northern Romania , the son of a Greek-Catholic priest. He pursued studies in a Hungarian high school in Sighetu Marmației led by Piarist monks. After the First World War, he came to Bucharest. There, he pursued studies in literature and philosophy , followed by Slavonic studies in Prague, Bonn and Warsaw, and obtained a Ph.D.
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Morris Steggerda
1900 - 1950 (50 years)
Morris Steggerda was an American physical anthropologist. He worked primarily on Central American and Caribbean populations. Life and career Steggerda was born in Holland, Michigan, the son of Sena and John Steggerda. He was of Dutch descent. He received an A.B. from Hope College in 1922, and an A.M. and Ph.D. from the Department of Zoology of the University of Illinois, in 1923 and 1928 respectively. His first academic position was as assistant professor of zoology at Smith College , but most of his career was spent as an investigator with the Carnegie Institution for Science at Cold Spring Harbor, New York .
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Thomas Griffith Taylor
1880 - 1963 (83 years)
Thomas Griffith "Grif" Taylor was an English-born geographer, anthropologist and world explorer. He was a survivor of Captain Robert Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica . Taylor was a senior academic geographer at universities in Sydney, Chicago, and Toronto. His writings on geography and race were controversial.
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Carleton S. Coon
1904 - 1981 (77 years)
Carleton Stevens Coon was an American anthropologist. A professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, lecturer and professor at Harvard University, he was president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Coon's theories on race were widely disputed in his lifetime and are considered pseudoscientific in modern anthropology.
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Victor Ehrenberg
1891 - 1976 (85 years)
Victor Ehrenberg was a German Jewish historian. Life Ehrenberg was born in Altona, Hamburg to a noted German Jewish family. He was the younger brother of Hans Ehrenberg and the nephew of the jurist Victor Ehrenberg, and a nephew of economist Richard Ehrenberg.
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Friedrich Solmsen
1904 - 1989 (85 years)
Friedrich W. Solmsen was a philologist and professor of classical studies. He published nearly 150 books, monographs, scholarly articles, and reviews from the 1930s through the 1980s. Solmsen's work is characterized by a prevailing interest in the history of ideas. He was an influential scholar in the areas of Greek tragedy, particularly for his work on Aeschylus, and the philosophy of the physical world and its relation to the soul, especially the systems of Plato and Aristotle.
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Jocelyn Toynbee
1897 - 1985 (88 years)
Jocelyn Mary Catherine Toynbee, was an English archaeologist and art historian. "In the mid-twentieth century she was the leading British scholar in Roman artistic studies and one of the recognized authorities in this field in the world." Having taught at St Hugh's College, Oxford, the University of Reading, and Newnham College, Cambridge, she became Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge from 1951 to 1962, the first and so far only female to hold this position.
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David G. Mandelbaum
1911 - 1987 (76 years)
David Goodman Mandelbaum was an American anthropologist. He majored in anthropology at Northwestern University, studying with Melville J. Herskovits. His major published work dealt with the Plains Cree people of Saskatchewan, Canada and he was well regarded for his study of society in India. He earned his doctorate at Yale University in 1936.
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Alan Wace
1879 - 1957 (78 years)
Alan John Bayard Wace was an English archaeologist, best known for his excavations at the Bronze Age site of Mycenae in Greece. He served as director of the British School at Athens between 1914 and 1923, and excavated widely in Thessaly, in Laconia and in Egypt. He was also an authority on Greek textiles and a prolific collector of Greek embroidery.
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Phyllis Kaberry
1910 - 1977 (67 years)
Phyllis Mary Kaberry was a social anthropologist who dedicated her work to the study of women in various societies. Particularly with her work in both Australia and Africa, she paved the way for a feminist approach in anthropological studies. Her research on the sacred life and significant role of the Aboriginal women of Australia proved to be a controversial topic, as anthropology during her years of early fieldwork was male-dominated, filled with the misconceptions that men were the superior in any aspect of life. Contributing proof of women's significance to societal development and org...
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George Devereux
1908 - 1985 (77 years)
Georges Devereux was a Hungarian-French ethnologist and psychoanalyst, often considered the founder of ethnopsychiatry. He was born into a Jewish family in the Banat, Austria-Hungary . His family moved to France following World War I. He studied the Malayan language in Paris, completing work at the Institut d'Ethnologie. In 1933 he converted to Catholicism and changed his name to Georges Devereux. At that time, he traveled for the first time to the United States to do fieldwork among the Mohave Indians, completing his doctorate in anthropology at University of California at Berkeley in 1936. ...
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