British School at Rome
The British School at Rome (BSR) is a British institute in Rome that promotes archeology , literary and musicology , Roman and Italian history , the fine arts and architecture , and conducts its own research. It is financed by the British Academy .
It is one of numerous international research institutes in Rome that deal with antiquity, in particular classical archeology , similar to the German Archaeological Institute in Rome . The British School was founded in 1901 as an initiative of the British School at Athens in 1899 and received a Royal Charter as an educational institute in 1912 , which was renewed in 1996. Initially the British School resided in Palazzo Odescalchi . In 1916 the institute moved into a building erected by Edwin Lutyens in the Valle Giulia in the Parioli district, which dates back to the British pavilion of the International Exhibition Esposizione internazionale d'arte in Rome in 1911 and whose facade is the western front of the Church of Saint Paul Outside the Walls replicates.
The British School was closed during World War II , but reopened in 1945 under the direction of John Bryan Ward-Perkins . Ward-Perkins directed and shaped the school until 1972. Among the directors were other well-known archaeologists, above all Thomas Ashby , who enrolled as the institute's first student in 1901 and became a driving force in the development and expansion of the British School. From 1903 to 1906 Ashby was second director, from 1906 to 1925 first director, interrupted only by the time of his army service in the First World War . Other directors include Graeme Barker , Richard Hodges and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill .
List of directors
- Gordon McNeil Rushforth (1901-1903)
- Henry Stuart Jones (1903-1905)
- Thomas Ashby (1906-1925)
- Bernard Ashmole (1925-1928)
- Arthur Smith (1928-1930, 1932)
- Ian Archibald Richmond (1930-1932)
- Colin Hardie (1933-1936)
- Ralegh Radford (1936-1939)
- No director during World War II (1939-1945)
- John Bryan Ward-Perkins (1945–1974)
- David Whitehouse (1974-1984)
- Donald A. Bullough (1984)
- Graeme Barker (1984–1988)
- Richard Hodges (1988-1995)
- Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (1995-2009)
- Christopher Smith (2009-2017)
- Stephen J. Milner (since 2017)
literature
- Timothy P. Wiseman: A Short History of the British School at Rome. The British School at Rome, London 1990, ISBN 0-904152-13-8 .
- Andrew Wallace-Hadrill: The British School at Rome. One Hundred Years. The British School at Rome, London 2001, ISBN 0-904152-35-9 .
Web links
Remarks
- ^ Andrew Wallace-Hadrill: The British School at Rome. One Hundred Years. The British School at Rome, London 2001, pp. 20-22.
- ↑ Governance on the BSR website.