Ivan M. Linforth

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Ivan Mortimer Linforth (born September 15, 1879 in San Francisco , † December 15, 1976 in Berkeley ) was an American classical philologist and religious scholar .

Life

Linforth studied Classical Philology at the University of California, Berkeley with Isaac Flagg , where he achieved a Bachelor's degree in 1900 and a Master's degree in 1901 . From 1902 to 1903 he deepened his studies as a scholarship holder of the Harvard Club at Harvard University . In 1905 he was awarded a Ph.D. PhD . In the same year he began his academic career as an Instructor of Greek at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked until his retirement in 1949.

During more than 40 years at Berkeley, Linforth has earned national recognition as a researcher and academic teacher. He was a member of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast (President 1925/1926), the American Philological Association (President 1931/1932) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (from 1933). 1939/1940 he was visiting professor at Princeton University ( Andrew Fleming West Professor ). After his retirement he was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 1949 to 1950 .

Linforth's research was devoted to the Greek religion and tragedy ( Sophocles ). He was considered the best expert on the Orphics of his time and published the standard work The Arts of Orpheus (Berkeley / Los Angeles 1941).

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