John Linton Myres

Sir John Linton Myres OBE , FBA (born July 3, 1869 in Preston , † March 6, 1954 in Oxford ) was a British ancient historian and classical archaeologist .

The son of a pastor received his education at Winchester College and studied from 1888 at the New College of Oxford University . He was then in Oxford from 1892 to 1895 fellow at Magdalen College , then until 1907 tutor at Christ Church College. In 1903 he became lecturer in Classical Archeology at Oxford University.

1907 Myres Gladstone Professor of Greek at the University of Liverpool , 1910 Wykeham Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford. In 1913/1914 he was the first holder of the Sather visiting professorship at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1926/1927 Myres was Sather Professor for the second time . His lecture Who were the Greeks? was reprinted in the Sather Lectures series in 1930 . From 1928 to 1931, Myres was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland . In 1919 he was accepted as an officer in the Order of the British Empire , in 1943 he was made a Knight Bachelor ("Sir"). Since 1923 he was a member ( fellow ) of the British Academy .

Myres was equally concerned with Greek and Roman history, especially political history and the role of historiography. He has also published archaeological articles and monographs. He stayed several times on research trips and excavations in Greece, Asia Minor and Cyprus.

His son was the archaeologist John Nowell Linton Myres (1902-1989).

literature

• John Bradford: Sir John Myres, OBE, FBA In: Nature . Volume 173, 1954, 4406th edition. P. 662.
• Ann Brown: 'I Propose to Begin at Gnossos': John Myres's Visit to Crete in 1893 . In: The Annual of the British School at Athens . Volume 81, 1986, pp. 37-44.
• DHG J. L. Myres . In: The Journal of Hellenic Studies . Volume 74, 1954, pp. 181-182, (online)
• The Annual of the British School at Athens : 49th year (1954), p. 311ff.
• Liverpool and Birkenhead in the Twentieth Century. Contemporary Biographies . Pike, Brighton 1911.
• Who's Who in Oxfordshire . Baylis, London 1936.