Olwen Brogan

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Olwen Phillis Brogan OBE, also Olwen Hackett (* as Olwen Phillis Francis Kendall on December 15, 1900 in Holyhead , † December 18, 1989 in Cambridge ), was a British Provincial Roman archaeologist . She is regarded as an outstanding researcher of ancient Roman Libya , especially Tripolitania .

Olwen Brogan was the daughter of George and Phillis Kendall. She studied Latin , Roman History and Archeology ("Roman Studies" and "Roman Archeology") at University College London . She gained practical experience with excavations in Verulamium and Caerleon under Mortimer Wheeler . In her master's thesis she dealt with the Roman Limes in Germany. In the 1930s she took part in excavations in Gergovia . She then worked at University College London until she married the historian Denis William Brogan . With Denis Brogan she had four children, including the historian Hugh Brogan . During this time she was rarely able to devote herself to her scientific studies.

Only after the Second World War was she able to devote herself more to her research work. In Tripolitania , she had contact with Richard Goodchild (1918–1968) for the first time since her excavations in England , who was responsible for the English military administration from 1946 to 1948 as head of the antique collections and from 1953 administered the province of Cyrene in the same position . With Kathleen Kenyon she dug in Sabrata , with John Ward-Perkins in Leptis Magna , both in Libya. In the mid-1950s she began work in Ghirza . Up until the 1960s, she dug here not only in the city itself, but also in the surrounding area in the fortified farms and the necropolis in front of the city. During this time Brogan was also the founder of the Society for Libyan Studies, as well as the founder and first editor of the Journal of Libyan Studies . After her husband died in 1974, she married Charles Hackett. She stayed in Libya until the 1980s. After returning to England, the Society for Libyan Studies hosted a conference in Cambridge in Hackett's honor. Lady Brogan died three days after her 89th birthday, honored as Officer of the Order of the British Empire . Her grave is on the Ascension Parish Burial Ground in Cambridge.

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SURNAME Brogan, Olwen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brogan, Olwen Phillis (full name); Hackett, Olwen; Francis, Olwen Phillis (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Provincial Roman Archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Holyhead
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1989
Place of death Cambridge