Alan Wace

Alan John Bayard Wace (born July 13, 1879 in Cambridge , † November 9, 1957 in Athens ) was a British archaeologist .

Wace attended Shrewsbury School and studied at Pembroke College , Cambridge since 1898 (BA 1901; MA 1906). In 1902 he spent at the British School at Athens , 1903-04 at the British School at Rome , whose librarian he was 1905-06. From 1912 to 1914 he was a lecturer in ancient history at St Andrews University .

From 1914 to 1923 he was director of the British School at Athens , from 1924 to 1934 deputy director of the textile department of the Victoria and Albert Museum and from 1934 to 1944 professor of classical archeology at the University of Cambridge . In retirement he was still active from 1944 to 1952 as a professor of archeology at the University of Alexandria .

Wace led u. a. Excavations in Sparta , Mycenae , Troy , Thessaly , Corinth and Alexandria carried out . His main research area was Bronze Age Greece.

Since 1929 he was a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London , since 1947 of the British Academy . He was married to the archaeologist Helen Wace. Their daughter is the archaeologist Elizabeth Bayard French .

Fonts (selection)

• Prehistoric Thessaly (1912).
• The nomads of the Balkans. An account of life and customs among the Vlachs of northern Pindus (1913).
• Excavations at Mycenae (1923).
• Chamber tombs at Mycenae (1932).
• Mycenae, an Archaeological History and Guide (1949).
• (Ed.): A Companion to Homer. London 1962.

literature

• Frank Henry Stubbings : Alan John Bayard Wace, 1879–1957. In: Proceedings of the British Academy 44, 1958, 263-280.
• Carl Blegen : Alan John Bayard Wace (1879–1957). In: American Philosophical Society Yearbook 1958, 162-171.
• Sinclair Hood: Alan John Bayard Wace. In: Gnomon 30, 1958, 158-159.
• David Gill: Wace, Alan John Bayard (1879–1957) . In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004