Arnold Walter Lawrence
Arnold Walter Lawrence (born May 2, 1900 in Oxford , † March 31, 1991 in Devizes ) was a British classical archaeologist .
Live and act
Arnold Walter Lawrence was the youngest of five illegitimate sons of Sir Thomas Robert Tighe Chapman (1846-1919) and Sarah Junner (1861-1959). His older brother was TE Lawrence (1888-1935). His father called himself Thomas Robert Lawrence and devoted himself entirely to raising his sons.
Lawrence attended the City of Oxford School and studied Ancient Studies and Classical Archeology at New College , Oxford . Wealthy by origin, he spent the years 1921 to 1926 in the Mediterranean countries at the British School at Rome and the British School at Athens . Under Leonard Woolley he took part in the 1923 excavation of Ur , which made him realize that archaeological fieldwork was not his thing. He married Barbara Inness Thompson (1902–1986) in 1925, settled in Berkshire and devoted himself to his studies in Greek sculpture . At Cambridge University he received the Laurence Readership in Classical Archeology in 1930 , and in 1944 he succeeded AJW Wace Laurence Professor of Classical Archeology . In 1951 he went to the British Crown Colony of Gold Coast , where he became the first professor of archeology at the University College of the Gold Coast in Accra , as well as director of the National Museum and responsible for the preservation of monuments on the Gold Coast. In 1957, with the end of the crown colony and the establishment of the Republic of Ghana , he gave up his offices and returned to England. Since 1982 he has been a corresponding member of the British Academy .
His main areas of research were the history of Greek sculpture and architecture .
Publications (selection)
- Later Greek Sculpture and its Influence on East and West. Jonathan Cape, London 1927.
- Classical sculpture. Its History from the Earliest Times to the Death of Constantine. Jonathan Cape, London 1929.
- Greek Architecture. Penguin, Harmondsworth 1957.
- Trade Castles and Forts of West Africa. Jonathan Cape, London 1964.
- Greek and Roman Sculpture. Jonathan Cape, London 1972.
- Greek Aims in Fortification. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1979.
literature
- Robert M. Cook : Lawrence, Arnold Walter. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Volume 32: Knox-Lear. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861382-2 , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
Web links
- AW Lawrence in the Dictionary of Art Historians
Individual evidence
- ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 26, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lawrence, Arnold Walter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lawrence, AW |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Classical Archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oxford |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1991 |
| Place of death | Devizes |