George Miller Calhoun

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George Miller Calhoun (born January 29, 1886 in Lincoln, Nebraska , † June 16, 1942 in Berkeley ) was an American classical philologist and legal historian .

Life

Georg Miller Calhoun, the son of newspaper editor James Duncan Calhoun, studied at Stetson University ( BA 1906) and at the University of Chicago ( MA 1907). There he received his doctorate in 1911 under Robert J. Bonner (1868–1946) .

From 1911 to 1917 Calhoun was Adjunct Professor of Greek at the University of Texas at Austin . In 1917 he moved to the University of California, Berkeley as Assistant Professor of Greek , where he was later appointed Associate Professor and Full Professor . From 1923 to 1924 he headed the Graecist department and from 1939 until his death the entire Department of Classics . From 1924 to 1933 he was the manager of the University of California Press , and in 1941 President of the American Philological Association .

Since studying in Chicago, Calhoun has dealt with the attic judiciary, association and legal system as well as economic and business practice. The suggestion for this was given by his doctoral supervisor Robert J. Bonner, whose own work appeared parallel to that of his student.

Calhoun published numerous articles in various journals (mainly Classical Philology and American Journal of Philology ). In addition, he wrote systematic descriptions of his research areas in monographic form.

Fonts (selection)

  • Athenian Clubs in Politics and Litigation . Houston 1912
  • Should the teacher of Latin know Greek? Austin 1912 ( University of Texas Bulletin , No. 225)
  • The Business Life of Ancient Athens . Chicago 1926
  • The Ancient Greeks and the Evolution of Standards in Business . Boston / New York 1926
  • The Growth of Criminal Law in Ancient Greece . Berkeley 1927
  • with Catherine Delamere: A Working Bibliography of Greek Law . Cambridge 1927. Reprinted Amsterdam 1968
  • Introduction to Greek Legal Science . Oxford 1944

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