Robert Pierce Casey

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Robert Pierce Casey (born December 3, 1897 in Dorchester , Massachusetts , † April 4 or 5, 1959 in Norfolk , England ) was an American church historian .

Life

Robert Pierce Casey studied theology at Harvard Divinity School . During World War I he was trained in the Student Army Training Corps from 1918 to 1919. At Harvard Divinity School, he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1919 and a Bachelor of Sacred Theology in 1922. His academic teacher Kirsopp Lake described him in a letter to Hans Lietzmann as his best student. In the next two years he continued his studies with the Sheldon Fellowship at the University of Cambridge , where he was the first American student to receive a doctorate in theology (Ph. D.) in 1924 . In the same year he went to the University of Cincinnati as a research assistant for Greek palaeography , where he was appointed Professor of History and Philosophy of Religions in 1926. In the 1920s Casey stayed several times in Europe for scientific purposes, especially in Vienna and Berlin .

In 1934 Casey moved to Brown University as Professor of Biblical Literature and History of Religion and Chairman of the Department of Biblical Literature. In 1936 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1938 and 1939 he took part in the excavations in Van (Turkey) . His return from the second expedition was overshadowed by the outbreak of World War II , because the passenger ship Athenia , with which he had left Liverpool , was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on September 3rd. Casey was rescued in a lifeboat along with 70 other passengers and brought to Glasgow on September 4th . A considerable part of his archaeological records had been lost.

During World War II, Casey taught Russian at Brown University in addition to his usual duties and was an assistant pastor at St. Stephen's Church (1939-1946). In 1940 he was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church . In 1950 he left the USA and went as a lecturer at the Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge.

Casey's research focus was the church history of late antiquity , especially Egypt in the 3rd and 4th centuries. He dealt intensively with Athanasius of Alexandria and Serapion of Thmuis and edited various writings of them in Greek and Armenian .

Fonts (selection)

  • Clement of Alexandria and the Beginnings of Christian Platonism . In: Harvard Theological Review . Volume 18 (1925), pp. 39-101
  • Armenian Manuscripts of St. Athanasius of Alexandria . In: Harvard Theological Review . Volume 24 (1930/1931), pp. 43-59
  • Serapion of Thmuis Against the Manichees . Cambridge, Massachusetts 1931 ( Harvard Theological Studies 15)
  • with George Jeremiah Ryan: The 'De incarnatione' of Athanasius . London / Philadelphia 1945 ( Studies and documents 14)
  • Religion in Russia . New York 1946
  • The Armenian Version of the Pseudo-Athanasian Letter to the Antiochenes and of the Expositio Fidei . London / Philadelphia 1947 ( Studies and documents 15)

literature

  • Harvard Alumni Bulletin . Volume 62 (1959), p. 31
  • Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique . Volume 55 (1960), p. 349
  • James Neville Birdsall, Robert W. Thomson (Editors): Biblical and Patristic Studies. In Memory of Robert Pierce Casey . Freiburg im Breisgau / Barcelona / New York / Rome / São Paulo / Vienna 1963 (with picture and list of scriptures)
  • Kurt Aland (editor): The Splendor and Decline of the German University: 50 Years of German Scientific History in Letters to and from Hans Lietzmann (1892–1942). Verlag de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1979, ISBN 3-11-004980-5 , p. 470; 588
  • Martha Mitchell: Encyclopedia Brunoniana . Providence 1993

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ April 4: Harvard Alumni Bulletin . Vol. 62 (1959), p. 31; April 5th: Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique . Volume 55 (1960), p. 349.
  2. ↑ Frederick Sumner Mead: Harvard's Military Record in the World War . Cambridge, Massachusetts 1921, p. 167.
  3. ↑ Kurt Aland (editor): Splendor and decline of the German university: 50 years of German scientific history in letters to and from Hans Lietzmann (1892–1942). Verlag de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1979, ISBN 3-11-004980-5 , p. 470 (Letter No. 495, Kirsopp Lake to Hans Lietzmann, August 30, 1923): “He is the best pupil I have ever had in any country and I have great hopes that he may turn out a really great scholar some day "
personal data
SURNAME Casey, Robert Pierce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American church historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorchester , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH April 1959
Place of death Norfolk , England