Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels

Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels (birth name Agnes Freda Isabel Kirsopp Lake , born July 31, 1909 in Leiden , Netherlands , † November 30, 1993 in Chapel Hill , North Carolina ) was an American classical philologist and religious scholar .

Life

Agnes Freda Isabel Kirsopp Lake was the daughter of New Testament scholar Kirsopp Lake (1872-1946) and his wife Helen Courthope Forman Lake (1874-1958). Her father worked as a professor at the University of Leiden and from 1914 at Harvard University . Agnes Kirsopp Lake grew up in Leiden and Cambridge (Massachusetts) . She studied Classical Philology at Bryn Mawr College , where she received a Bachelor's degree in 1930 and a Master's degree in 1931 . After a year of study in Rome (as a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome ) she completed a doctorate at Bryn Mawr College, which she graduated with a Ph. D. in 1934. From 1941 she was married to the physicist Walter Christian Michels (1906–1975).

After completing her PhD, Agnes Kirsopp Lake taught as a lecturer at Bryn Mawr College, to which she remained lifelong. In 1938 she was appointed Assistant Professor of Latin, in 1946 as Associate Professor, and in 1955 as Professor. From 1964 until her retirement in 1975, she was head of the Department of Classical Philology. During this time she received a grant from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Education in 1953/54 and a Guggenheim grant in 1960/61 . In 1969 she was Martin Lecturer at Oberlin College , where she gave a series of lectures entitled Rome and the Gods . In 1970 Johns Hopkins University invited her as Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities. She was a long-time member of the American Philological Association , of which she received the Goodwin Award in 1970 and of which she was president in 1972.

After her retirement, she moved to Chapel Hill . She continued her research, lecturing, and teaching at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .

Her research focus was the Roman religion , with which Michels dealt with since her studies in Rome and Bryn Mawr (with Lily Ross Taylor ). She has published many articles in the field as well as a monograph, The Calendar of the Roman Republic (1967).

Fonts (selection)

• The Calendar of the Roman Republic . Princeton 1967

literature

• Jerzy Linderski: Agnes Kirsopp Michels and the Religio . In: The Classical Journal . Volume 92 (1997), pp. 323-345
• Suzanne B. Faris, Lesley E. Lunden (Eds.): Ten Years of the Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels Lectures at Bryn Mawr College . Bryn Mawr 2006

Web links

• Entry on Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels in the Database of Classical Scholars, written by Russell T. Scott (English)