Howard Comfort

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Howard Comfort (born June 4, 1904 in Haverford , Pennsylvania , † September 20, 1993 in Kennett Square , Pennsylvania) was an American classical archaeologist and classical philologist .

Howard Comfort, son of the Romanist and President of Haverford College William Wistar Comfort , studied at Haverford College ( BA 1924) and at Princeton University ( MA 1927). He spent 1927 to 1929 at the American Academy in Rome . In 1932 he received his doctorate from Princeton University. From 1932 to 1969 he taught as a professor of classical studies at Haverford College. His specialty was the research of the Roman terra sigillata . In 1957 he co-founded the Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores , a scientific society for the study of Roman ceramics.

His son W. Wistar Comfort was a mathematician.

Publications

  • Terra sigillata. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplementary volume VII, Stuttgart 1940, Col. 1295-1352.
  • (Ed.): Corpus Vasorum Arretinorum. A catalog of the signatures, shapes and chronology of Italian sigillata. Compiled by August Oxé . Habelt, Bonn 1968. 2nd edition: Supplemented by Philip Kenrick. Habelt, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-7749-3029-5 .
  • Terra sigillata. In: Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale . Supplemento. Rome 1973, pp. 803-834 ( online ).
  • Notes on Roman ceramic archeology, 1928–1978 edited by Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores on the occasion of the 75th birthday of its founder and master; with a directory of Howart Comfort's scientific publications. Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores, Augst / Kaiseraugst 1979.

literature

  • Elisabeth Ettlinger : Howard Comfort, 4.6.1904-20.9.1993. In: Bavarian history sheets. 59, 1994, pp. 1-2.
  • Philip M. Kenrick: Howard Comfort 1904-1993. In: American Journal of Archeology. 98, 1994, pp. 561-562.
  • Elisabeth Ettlinger: Howard Comfort, 1904–1993. In: Alba Regia. 25, 1995 (= Acta Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautorum. 34, 1995). P. 401.
  • Iva Mikl-Curk: Howard Comfort (1904-1993). In: Arheološki Vestnik. 45, 1994, p. 268 ( online ).

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personal data
SURNAME Comfort, Howard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Haverford , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 1993
Place of death Kennett Square , Pennsylvania