Walter Fifield Snyder, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Walter Fifield Snyder

American historian of antiquity

Date of Birth: 09-Apr-1912

Place of Birth: Northfield, New Jersey, United States

Date of Death: 09-Feb-1993

Profession: historian, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Walter Fifield Snyder

  • Walter Fifield Snyder (1912–1993) was an American scholar of ancient history. Born in Northfield, New Jersey in 1912, Snyder graduated from Camden High School and earned an A.B.
  • in Classics from Swarthmore College in 1932.
  • He went on to earn his Ph.D.
  • in Classics at Yale University in 1936 with a dissertation entitled "Chronological Studies in the History of the Roman Emperors" (under Michael Rostovtzeff).
  • He then was a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome from 1936 to 1938.
  • He first taught at Hunter College (part of the City University of New York) from 1940 to 1941, and then at the University of Richmond from 1941 to 1943.
  • During World War II, he served as an officer in the US Naval Reserve.
  • After training in the Japanese language and cryptography, he rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander and served in the Pacific Theater with the Seventh Fleet.
  • After the end of World War II, he returned to the University of Richmond where he earned tenure.
  • He then joined the History Department at Clarion State College (now Clarion University) in 1967 as a full professor and taught there until his retirement in 1978.Snyder's work focused on problems of chronology in Roman imperial history.
  • He co-published a study of the papyrus from Dura-Europos known as the Feriale Duranum (with Robert O.
  • Fink & Allan S.
  • Hoey) with Yale University Press in 1940.
  • In the same volume, he also published a study of Public Anniversaries in the Roman Empire.
  • Additionally, he published an array of articles in leading journals on topics of historiography in Cassius Dio as well as on the Alexandrian Calendar.
  • He was an esoteric (and extemporaneous) classroom lecturer who established the ancient history curriculum at Clarion University.

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