Robert J. Bonner

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Robert J. Bonner (born October 24, 1868 in Oxford County, Ontario , † January 23, 1946 in Chicago ) was an American classical philologist and legal historian of Canadian origin.

Life

Robert J. Bonner studied law at the University of Toronto ( Bachelor in 1890) and the Ontario Law School , which he graduated in 1893. He gave up his planned career in law and studied classical philology with Paul Shorey at the University of Chicago . From 1900 to 1903 he taught as Professor of Latin at Stetson University in Florida. After returning to Chicago, he completed his PhD, received his PhD in 1904 , and was appointed Associate Instructor of Greek in 1905 . In the following years he rose to Assistant Professor , Associate Professor and Full Professor of Greek . In 1927 he was appointed Head of the Department of Classics . For 1928/1929 he was elected President of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South and in 1932/1933 he was appointed Sather Professor at the University of California, Berkeley . He retired in 1934 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1935 . The University of Dublin awarded him a doctorate (Litt.D.) in 1937.

Bonner's research focus was on law and judicial practice in ancient Greece. He produced numerous writings in this field. His students, which include George Miller Calhoun , William Scott Ferguson , John Oscar Lofberg, and Hartley Grant Robertson , are known as the Bonn School of Greek Law . Together with Gertrude Smith , his student and later colleague, he wrote his main work in the 1930s, in which the entirety of the Attic judiciary was represented. A third volume, in which the Attic judiciary was to be compared with that of other Poleis , was no longer produced because of Bonner's death.

Fonts (selection)

  • Evidence in Athenian Courts . Chicago 1905 (dissertation). Reprints New York 1979, 2006
  • Greek Compositions . Chicago 1903
  • Lawyers and Litigants in Ancient Athens . Chicago 1927. Reprints New York 1969
  • with Gertrude Smith: Administration of Justice from Homer to Aristotle . Two volumes, Chicago 1930–1938. Reprints New York 1968, 1970
  • Aspects of Athenian Democracy . Berkeley 1933 (Sather Classical Lectures 11)

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