Frank Henry Stubbings

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Frank Henry Stubbings FSA (March 8, 1915 , † October 29, 2005 ) was a British classical philologist , classical archaeologist , prehistorian and mycenaeologist .

After attending the Perse School in Cambridge , Stubbings graduated from 1933 to study classical philology ( Classical tripos ) at the local Emmanuel College . There he won, among other things, the Porson Prize for Greek verse composition . After graduation, he was accepted as a student at the British School at Athens in 1937 and participated in the excavations in Ithaca and Mycenae . His teacher at the time was Alan Wace , the excavator of Mycenae. During the Second World War he was a member of the staff of the British embassy in Athens , and later that of the British embassy to the Greek government in Cairo . On his return in 1945 he was appointed Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Emmanuel College. In 1949 he was appointed University Lecturer in Prehellenic Archeology . To the Ph.D. Stubbings received his doctorate with an investigation into the export of Mycenaean ceramics to the Levant , which was published in 1951. In 1955 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries . He was a librarian from 1959, Vice-Master from 1965 to 1969, and finally a lifetime fellow at his college. After retiring in 1980, he became Honorary Keeper of the College Library's Special Collections. From 1974 to 1982 he served the university as a university orator who wrote speeches and other official texts for the university in Latin. From 1981 to 1991 he was chairman of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society.

Since 1945 Stubbings was married to the classical archaeologist Joan Laing.

Stubbings' research area was the archeology of the Homeric period , the Greek Bronze Age and the prehistory and early history of Greece and the Aegean as a whole.

In addition, Stubbings published various papers on the City and University of Cambridge.

Fonts (selection)

Publications on the prehistory and early history of the Aegean Sea and on Mykenologie

  • The Recession of Mycenaean Civilization. In: Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards , Cyril J. Gadd, Nicholas G. Hammond (Eds.): The Cambridge Ancient History , volume 2, part 2: The Middle East and the Aegean Region. c.1380-1000 BC. Third edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1975, ch. 27, 338-358.
  • The Rise of Mycenaean Civilization. In: Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, Cyril J. Gadd, Nicholas G. Hammond (eds.): The Cambridge Ancient History , volume 2, part 1: The Middle East and the Aegean Region, c.1800-1380 BC . Third edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1973, ch. 14, 627-658. Preprint: The Rise of Mycenaean Civilization. ( Cambridge Ancient History, Revised Edition , Vol. Ii, ch. Xiv.). Cambridge University Press, 1963. - Review by: Hector W. Catling, in: Gnomon 37, 1965, 831-834.
  • Prehistoric Greece. Rupert Hart-Davis, London 1972. - Review of: John Boardman , in: Classical Review (New Series) 24, 1974, 303; Sinclair Hood, in: Journal of Hellenic Studies 95, 1975, 255.
  • with Alan JB Wace (Ed.): A Companion to Homer. MacMillan and Company, London and Toronto 1962. - Review of: DHF Gray, Phoenix 17, 1963, 293-300, online .
  • Mycenaean Pottery from the Levant. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1951. - Review of: Sara A. Immerwahr, American Journal of Archeology 56, 1952, 152-154, online .
  • The Mycenaean pottery of Attica. In: The Annual of the British School at Athens 42, 1947, 1-75, online .

Publications on the City and University of Cambridge

  • The Graham Watson Collection of Color-plate Books at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Cambridge 1993.
  • with Elisabeth Leedham-Green, DE Rhodes (Ed.): Garrett Godfrey's accounts, c. 1527-1533. Cambridge University Library for the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Cambridge 1992.
  • Bedders, Bulldogs and Bedells. A glossary of Cambridge words and usages . First published by the author 1991; revised and enlarged edition published by Cambridge University Press 1995; ( Excerpts online ).
  • The Statutes of Sir Walter Mildmay Kt. Chancellor of the Exchequer and one of Her Majesty's Privy Councilors, authorized by him for the government of Emmanuel College founded by him. Translated and introduced by Frank Stubbings. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1983. - Review of: Claire Cross, in: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 34, 1983, 656-657, online .
  • William Croone (1633-1684). 1983.
  • Saint Mark's Church, Cambridge. A Short History, 1871-1951. Cambridge 1951. Second edition: A history of St Mark's church, Cambridge in two parts: 1871–1951 by FH Stubbings and 1951–1985 by MF Ingham. Cambridge 1989.

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SURNAME Stubbings, Frank Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British classical philologist and mycenaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1915
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 2005