Russell Meiggs, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Russell Meiggs

British historian

Date of Birth: 20-Oct-1902

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 24-Jun-1989

Profession: historian, university teacher, classical scholar

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Russell Meiggs

  • Russell Meiggs (20 October 1902 – 24 June 1989) was a British ancient historian, perhaps best known for his extensive work on the Roman port city of Ostia. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and Keble College, Oxford.
  • He was Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Balliol College, Oxford, from 1939 to 1970.
  • During World War II he worked at the Ministry of Supply in the timber section.
  • Meiggs served as Prefect of the College from 1945 until 1969.
  • His eccentricity was legendary.
  • His papers are in the Balliol College library. He met his future wife, the historian Pauline Gregg (1909-2006), at the Ministry of Supply; the couple married in 1941. He was a periodic visiting professor in the Classics Department at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, in the 1970s, where he taught (among other classes) Greece in the Fifth Century (BCE) and Roman Ostia.
  • See Dover in reference 2, below.

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