George Ewart Bean

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George Ewart Bean (* 1903 ; † December 7, 1977 ) was an English classical philologist and epigraphist .

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Bean was the son of the botanist William Jackson Bean. He attended St Paul's School in London and then studied Classical Studies at Pembroke College , Cambridge , which he graduated in 1923. Immediately afterwards he was entrusted with a teaching position at St Paul's; The focus here was on ancient Greece .

As a recognized expert in this area, he organized several trips to the Turkish Aegean Sea as part of a summer academy at his university . In 1943 he went to Izmir as a lecturer in English for the British Council . In parallel with this work, Bean also began small field research in the area during this time . Since 1946 he taught classical philology and ancient history at the University of Istanbul , in 1971 he was retired.

Between 1943 and 1971, Bean repeatedly traveled to different parts of Turkey - alone and with colleagues . The collaboration with his friend and colleague, the epigrapher Terence Mitford (1905–1978), manifested itself in the books Journeys in Rough Cilicia .

Through his expertise, the publisher Ernest Benn became aware of Bean and persuaded him to a number of "archaeological guides". The resulting four volumes are considered the Magnum Beans opus . In addition to numerous other writings and contributions, he wrote a considerable part of the articles on classical ancient sites in what is now Turkey in the form of Richard Stillwell et al. published Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites .

As a specialist in ancient Turkey, Bean was valued by colleagues and students alike. He was athletic and passionate about badminton and tennis . In his youth he even made it to the Wimbledon Championships .

Bean was married twice: his first marriage lasted six years and ended in divorce. He met his second wife while teaching in Turkey and married her in Istanbul.

Fonts (selection)

  • with William Moir Calder : A classical map of Asia Minor. Being a partial revision ... of JGC Anderson's Map of Asia Minor. British Institute of Archeology at Ankara, London 1958.
  • with Peter Marshall Fraser: The Rhodian Peraea and islands. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1954.
  • Side kitabeleri = The inscriptions of Side. Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, Ankara 1965.
  • Aegean Turkey. An archaeological guide . Benn, London 1966.
  • with Terence B. Mitford: Journeys in Rough Cilicia in 1962 and 1963 (= memoranda of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical class, vol. 85). Böhlau, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1965.
  • Turkey's southern shore. An archaeological guide . Benn, London 1968.
  • with Terence B. Mitford: Journeys in Rough Cilicia 1964–1968 (= memoranda of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical class, vol. 102; = supplementary volumes to the tituli Asiae minoris. vol. 3). Böhlau, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1970.
  • Journeys in Northern Lycia 1965–1967 (= memoranda of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical class, vol. 104). Böhlau, Graz / Vienna, Cologne 1971.
  • Turkey beyond the maeander. An archaeological guide . Benn, London 1971.
  • Lycean Turkey. An archaeological guide . Benn, London 1978.

literature

  • The Times , Dec 15, 1977, p. 21.
  • Barnaby Rogerson: Rough Journeys. George Bean and Terence Mitford . In: Cornucopia Magazine , 2001 ISSN  0113-2644 full text

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SURNAME Bean, George Ewart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English classical philologist and epigraphist
DATE OF BIRTH 1903
DATE OF DEATH 7th December 1977