Richard Stillwell

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Richard Stillwell (born October 16, 1899 in Niagara Falls , New York ; died July 27, 1982 in Providence , Rhode Island ) was an American architectural historian and classical archaeologist .

Richard Stillwell grew up in Lakewood, Connecticut and attended the Pomfret School in Pomfret in preparation for his studies . The degree of Bachelor at Princeton University he obtained in 1921. He then studied architecture restoration , including in France , which he in Princeton with the 1924 Master of Fine Arts graduated in architecture. The philologist Edward Capps , Professor of Classics at Princeton University, then brought him to the American School of Classical Studies in Athens as a Fellow for Architecture, on whose board Capps had been since 1908. It was here that Stillwell first came into contact with the monumental legacies of Greek architecture and gained first experience in archeology, especially during the excavations of the American School in Corinth . In 1926 he returned to Princeton as an instructor and went through an academic career that led him to Professor of Art and Archeology in 1954 and the Howard Crosby Butler Memorial Professor at Princeton in 1959 . He held this chair until his retirement in 1967.

At the same time, he was associated with the American School of Classical Studies all his life . From 1928 to 1931 he was Assistant Professor of Architecture there , from 1931 to 1932 Deputy Director and from 1932 to 1935, released from university, as director of the American School . During these years he was also head of the Corinth excavation and the lead architect of the excavations at the Athens Agora, financed by John D. Rockefeller . From 1933 to 1939 he was involved in the excavations at Princeton University in Antioch on the Orontes .

During World War II , he served as a teacher in the United States Navy at Quonset Point from 1942 to 1945 , during which time he was promoted from Lieutenant to Lieutenant Commander . After the war he returned to Greece in 1947/48 and, in addition to his work in Princeton, taught as a professor of architecture at the American School . Initiated by Erik Sjöqvist , director of the Svenska Institutet i Rome until 1948 and professor at Princeton since 1951, the university began excavations in Morgantina, Sicily , in 1953 and from 1955 to 1963 and again in 1966/67 Sjöqvist and Stillwell shared the management of the excavations.

In addition, Stillwell was editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Archeology from 1954 , a task that he filled until 1973. Subsequently, he was one of the editors of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites , a long-standing and still widely used reference work on ancient topography and urban studies.

Publications (selection)

  • Antioch on the Orontes . Volume 2: The excavations 1933-1936 . Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1938.
  • Antioch-on-the-Orontes . Volume 3: The excavations of 1937-1939 . Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1941.
  • Corinth. Volume 1, 2: Architecture. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1941.
  • Corinth. Volume 2: The Theater. American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton, NJ 1952.
  • The Chapel of Princeton University. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1971.
  • with William L. MacDonald , Marian Holland McAllister (Eds.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .

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SURNAME Stillwell, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American architectural historian and classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Niagara Falls , New York
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1982
Place of death Providence , Rhode Island