Brian B. Shefton

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Brian Benjamin Shefton (born August 11, 1919 in Cologne ; † January 25, 2012 ) was a British classical archaeologist of German origin.

Life

Shefton was born under the name Bruno Benjamin Scheftelowitz as the youngest son of the Cologne rabbi (until 1926) and honorary professor for Oriental, Indian and Iranian philology Isidor Scheftelowitz . He attended the Apostelgymnasium in Cologne until the summer of 1933 when, as a Jew, he and his parents had to emigrate from Germany to Great Britain because his father's license to teach had been revoked.

From 1938 he studied Classical Studies at Oriel College in Oxford , interrupted by military service on the British side from 1940 to 1945. In Oxford he was influenced by John D. Beazley and Paul Jacobsthal . Spent 1947 to 1950 at the British School at Athens and in 1949 took part in the British-Turkish excavation of Old Smyrna . In 1950 he became a lecturer at the University College of the South West in Exeter . Since 1955 Shefton taught Greek archeology in the Department of Classics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne , initially asLecturer , since 1960 as Senior Lecturer , since 1974 as Personal Reader , since 1979 with his own chair. In 1984 he retired. Here he also founded a collection of antiquities, which was named after him Shefton Museum for Greek Art and Archeology .

In 1985 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy , which also awarded him the Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies in 1999 . In 1989 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Cologne .

literature

  • Kathryn Lomas (Ed.): Greek identity in the Western Mediterranean. Papers in honor of Brian Shefton (= Mnemosyne. Supplementum 246). Brill, Leiden et al. 2004, ISBN 90-04-13300-3 pp. Xvii-xxi (curriculum vitae and list of publications).
  • John Boardman, Andrew Parkin: Brian Benjamin Shefton, 11 August 1919 - 25 January 2012 . In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy . tape XVII , 2018, p. 51-61 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

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personal data
SURNAME Shefton, Brian B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shefton, Brian; Shefton, Brian Benjamin; Scheftelowitz, Bruno Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Classical Archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 2012