Crawford Hallock Greenewalt Jr. | |
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Born | [1]
[4] | June 3, 1937
Died | May 4, 2012[1]
[2] | (aged 74)
Alma mater |
Harvard University (
BA) University of Pennsylvania ( PhD) |
Known for | Archaeology at Sardis [1] [2] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Classical archaeology [1] [2] |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley [1] [2] |
Thesis | Lydian Pottery of the Sixth-century B.C.: The Lydion and Marbled Ware [3] (1966) |
Crawford Hallock Greenewalt Jr. (June 3, 1937 – May 4, 2012) was an American classical archaeologist at the University of California, Berkeley who made contributions to the study of Lydia through his excavations at Sardis. [1] [2]
Greenewalt was the son of Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, a chemical engineer and later president of DuPont, and Margaretta L. Greenewalt. [4] He had one brother, David Greenewalt, and one sister, Nancy G. Frederick. [4] He attended the Tower Hill School, received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1959, and a Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966. [1] Greenwalt died of a brain tumor in 2012. [1]
Greenewalt first showed in interest in archaeology at age eight. [1] While an undergraduate at Harvard, Greenewalt worked at the Sardis excavation, where he became known for his ability to crawl through the narrow tunnels constructed by earlier tomb robbers. [2] After graduating in 1959, Greenewalt joined the Sardis excavation as a staff photographer. [1] [2] Greenewalt's Ph.D. thesis was on the Lydian pottery, like those recovered at the Sardis excavation. [2] Greenewalt worked on the Sardis excavation every summer from 1959 to 2011. [1] [2] In 1976 he was made the field director of the excavation, a position he held until 2007 when he turned it over to Nicholas Cahill. [1] [2]
Greenewalt was a member of the American Philosophical Society, and an honorary member the German Archaeological Institute and Austrian Archaeological Institute. [1] In 1993 he was awarded the Henry Allen Moe Prize in Humanities by the American Philosophical Society for his paper "When a Mighty Empire Was Destroyed" and for his work on reconstructing the history of Lydia. [1] In 2012 he was awarded Archaeological Institute of America's Bandelier Award for Public Service to Archaeology for his work at Sardis. [5]
The research library of archaeology at Ege University, Izmir, to which Greenewalt had left his private library, was named "Greenewalt Library" in 2015. [6]
Crawford Hallock Greenewalt Jr. | |
---|---|
Born | [1]
[4] | June 3, 1937
Died | May 4, 2012[1]
[2] | (aged 74)
Alma mater |
Harvard University (
BA) University of Pennsylvania ( PhD) |
Known for | Archaeology at Sardis [1] [2] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Classical archaeology [1] [2] |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley [1] [2] |
Thesis | Lydian Pottery of the Sixth-century B.C.: The Lydion and Marbled Ware [3] (1966) |
Crawford Hallock Greenewalt Jr. (June 3, 1937 – May 4, 2012) was an American classical archaeologist at the University of California, Berkeley who made contributions to the study of Lydia through his excavations at Sardis. [1] [2]
Greenewalt was the son of Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, a chemical engineer and later president of DuPont, and Margaretta L. Greenewalt. [4] He had one brother, David Greenewalt, and one sister, Nancy G. Frederick. [4] He attended the Tower Hill School, received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1959, and a Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966. [1] Greenwalt died of a brain tumor in 2012. [1]
Greenewalt first showed in interest in archaeology at age eight. [1] While an undergraduate at Harvard, Greenewalt worked at the Sardis excavation, where he became known for his ability to crawl through the narrow tunnels constructed by earlier tomb robbers. [2] After graduating in 1959, Greenewalt joined the Sardis excavation as a staff photographer. [1] [2] Greenewalt's Ph.D. thesis was on the Lydian pottery, like those recovered at the Sardis excavation. [2] Greenewalt worked on the Sardis excavation every summer from 1959 to 2011. [1] [2] In 1976 he was made the field director of the excavation, a position he held until 2007 when he turned it over to Nicholas Cahill. [1] [2]
Greenewalt was a member of the American Philosophical Society, and an honorary member the German Archaeological Institute and Austrian Archaeological Institute. [1] In 1993 he was awarded the Henry Allen Moe Prize in Humanities by the American Philosophical Society for his paper "When a Mighty Empire Was Destroyed" and for his work on reconstructing the history of Lydia. [1] In 2012 he was awarded Archaeological Institute of America's Bandelier Award for Public Service to Archaeology for his work at Sardis. [5]
The research library of archaeology at Ege University, Izmir, to which Greenewalt had left his private library, was named "Greenewalt Library" in 2015. [6]