Sara Anderson Immerwahr | |
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Born | |
Died | June 25, 2008 | (aged 93)
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Archaeologist and art historian |
Spouse | Henry Rudolph Immerwahr |
Academic background | |
Education | Mount Holyoke College |
Alma mater | Bryn Mawr College |
Thesis | The Mycenaean Pictorial Style of Vase Painting in the Thirteenth Century B.C. (1943) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classical archaeology |
Institutions | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Sara Anderson Immerwahr (August 28, 1914 in Royersford, Pennsylvania – June 25, 2008 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina) was an American Classical archaeologist. [1] [2]
Immerwahr earned her bachelor's degree from Mount Holyoke College in 1935. One of her tutors at Mount Holyoke was archaeologist Caroline Morris Galt. [3] She gained her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College in 1943 with a dissertation entitled "The Mycenaean Pictorial Style of Vase Painting in the Thirteenth Century B.C." [4]
She was married to Henry Rudolph Immerwahr from 1944 until her death. She served as faculty member in both classics and art history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [5]
In 2021 the American School of Classical Studies at Athens named a suite after her and her husband. [6]
Sara Anderson Immerwahr | |
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Born | |
Died | June 25, 2008 | (aged 93)
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Archaeologist and art historian |
Spouse | Henry Rudolph Immerwahr |
Academic background | |
Education | Mount Holyoke College |
Alma mater | Bryn Mawr College |
Thesis | The Mycenaean Pictorial Style of Vase Painting in the Thirteenth Century B.C. (1943) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classical archaeology |
Institutions | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Sara Anderson Immerwahr (August 28, 1914 in Royersford, Pennsylvania – June 25, 2008 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina) was an American Classical archaeologist. [1] [2]
Immerwahr earned her bachelor's degree from Mount Holyoke College in 1935. One of her tutors at Mount Holyoke was archaeologist Caroline Morris Galt. [3] She gained her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College in 1943 with a dissertation entitled "The Mycenaean Pictorial Style of Vase Painting in the Thirteenth Century B.C." [4]
She was married to Henry Rudolph Immerwahr from 1944 until her death. She served as faculty member in both classics and art history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [5]
In 2021 the American School of Classical Studies at Athens named a suite after her and her husband. [6]