John C. Shelton

John C. Shelton (full name John Christian Shelton , born April 26, 1943 in Roanoke , Virginia , † March 16, 1992 in Trier ) was an American papyrologist .

Life

John C. Shelton studied Classical Philology at Franklin and Marshall College ( B.A. 1964) and at Stanford University ( M.A. 1968). He first came into contact with papyrology through a summer course from the American Society of Papyrologists . In his doctoral thesis, which he in 1968 Anthony E. Raubitschek . To Ph D. doctorate was, he gave documents from the Papyrus Collection of the University of Michigan out; at that time he started working with the papyrologist Herbert C. Youtie . Shelton's dissertation was published in 1971.

After completing his doctorate, Shelton worked as Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Georgia from 1968 and as Associate Professor from 1974. During research stays at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Cologne (as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ), he studied the papyrus collections there and published other editions. In 1975 Shelton moved to Kiel University as assistant to the ancient historian and papyrologist Horst Braunert . In 1977 he was appointed Scientific Councilor and Professor in Kiel. In 1982 Shelton accepted a call to the University of Trier , where he held a C3 professorship for papyrology and headed the papyrus collection, which was founded in the same year. In the ten years of his activity he expanded and opened up this papyrus collection and integrated it into academic teaching. Shelton died on 16 March 1992 at cancer .

Shelton published several editions and catalogs of Greek, Latin and Coptic papyrus documents, often in collaboration with other researchers.

Fonts (selection)

• Some Greek Documentary Papyri from the Michigan Collection. Roman and Byzantine Texts . Stanford 1968 (dissertation)
  • Published under the title: Papyri from the Michigan Collection . Amsterdam 1971
• with Henry Riad: A Tax List from Karanis. (P. Cair. Mich. 359) . 2 volumes (text / commentary and indices), Bonn 1975–1977
• with James G. Keenan: The Tebtunis Papyri. Part 4 . London 1976
• with John Wintour Baldwin Barns and Gerald Michael Browne: Nag Hammadi Codices. Greek and Coptic Papyri from the Cartonnage of the Covers . Leiden 1981
• Greek Ostraca in the Ashmolean Museum from Oxyrhynchus and Other Sites . Oxford 1988
• Greek and Latin Papyri, Ostraca, and Wooden Tablets in the Collection of the Brooklyn Museum . Florence 1992

literature

• The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists . Volume 29 (1992), p. 116

Web links

• Literature by and about John C. Shelton in the catalog of the German National Library