Philip Grierson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Philip Grierson

British academic and numismatist

Date of Birth: 15-Nov-1910

Place of Birth: Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

Date of Death: 15-Jan-2006

Profession: historian, coin collecting, university teacher, numismatist, archaeologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


Show Famous Birthdays Today, United Kingdom

👉 Worldwide Celebrity Birthdays Today

About Philip Grierson

  • Philip Grierson, FBA (15 November 1910 – 15 January 2006) was a British historian and numismatist, emeritus professor of numismatics at Cambridge University and a fellow of Gonville and Caius College for over seventy years.
  • During his long and extremely prolific academic career, he built the world's foremost representative collection of medieval coins, wrote very extensively on the subject, brought it to much wider attention in the historical community and filled important curatorial and teaching posts in Cambridge, Brussels and Washington DC.

Read more at Wikipedia