Gregory Crane

Gregory Ralph Crane (* 1957 ) is an American classical philologist and computer scientist .

Gregory Crane studied Classical Philology at Harvard University , where he worked as an Assistant Professor after completing his doctorate in 1985. From 1985 he was also involved in the Perseus Project (initially as co-director ), which created a digital library of ancient texts with translations. The first version of the database appeared in 1991. In 1992, Crane moved to Tufts University , which is also home to the Perseus Project. There he was later appointed Associate Professor and received the Winnick Family Chair of Technology and Entrepreneurship in 1998 .

Crane has received top-class awards for his work in the field of digital humanities . In 2010, Google presented him with the Digital Humanities Research Award . On April 1, 2013, he was appointed Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig (at the Institute for Computer Science).

In addition to applied computer science , Crane's research focuses on the Greek epic as well as Greek and Roman historiography .

Fonts (selection)

• Livy, Augustus, and the First Four Kings of Rome: A Study in Roman Historiography . Bachelor thesis, Harvard University 1979
• Calypso. Stages of Afterlife and Immortality in the Odyssey . Dissertation, Harvard University 1985
  • Revised version under the title: Calypso. Backgrounds and Conventions of the Odyssey . Frankfurt am Main 1988
• The Blinded Eye: Thucydides and the New Written Word . London 1996
• Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity. The Limits of Political Realism . Berkeley / Los Angeles 1998

Web links

• University of Leipzig receives top-class Humboldt Professorship
• Gregory Crane on the website of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (English)
• Information for Open Philology Project (English)