Ivan Mortimer Linforth, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ivan Mortimer Linforth

American academic

Date of Birth: 15-Sep-1879

Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, United States

Date of Death: 15-Dec-1976

Profession: university teacher, classical philologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Ivan Mortimer Linforth (15 September 1879, San Francisco – 15 December 1976, Berkeley, California) was an American scholar, Professor of Greek at University of California, Berkeley.
According to the Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists he was "one of the great Hellenists of his time".
He is best known for his book The Arts of Orpheus (1941).
In it he analysed the body of texts dealing with Orpheus and the Orphics.
He concluded that there was no exclusively 'Orphic' system of belief in Ancient Greece.