Peter Allan Hansen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Peter Allan Hansen

Danish-British classical scholar

Date of Birth: 20-Apr-1944

Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Date of Death: 18-Apr-2012

Profession: classical scholar, archaeologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Peter Allan Hansen (20 April 1944 – 18 April 2012) was a Danish classical philologist known principally for his work on the Carmina epigraphica graeca I-II and on other aspects of Greek epigraphy.
Born in Copenhagen he was educated at Copenhagen University and at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was a pupil of Lilian H.
Jeffery.
After 1975 he settled in Oxford and through the support of scholarships and grants continued his work on Hesychios and epigraphy there.