Ernst Badian, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ernst Badian

Austrian classical scholar

Date of Birth: 08-Aug-1925

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 01-Feb-2011

Profession: university teacher, classical scholar, historian of classical antiquity

Nationality: United States, Austria

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Ernst Badian

  • Ernst Badian (August 8, 1925 – February 1, 2011) was an Austrian-born classical scholar who served as a professor at Harvard University, United States, from 1971 to 1998.Born in Vienna in 1925, in 1938 he fled Nazi Europe with his family moving to New Zealand.
  • There he attended University of Canterbury (then Canterbury College), where he met his future wife Nathlie Ann Wimsett, receiving a B.A.
  • in 1945 and an M.A.
  • the following year.
  • After a year teaching at Victoria University of Wellington, he went to University College, Oxford, studying under George Cawkwell and getting a B.A.
  • (First Class in Litt.
  • Hum.) in 1950, an M.A.
  • in 1954, and D.
  • Phil.
  • in 1956.
  • In addition, he took a Litt.
  • D.
  • from New Zealand's Victoria University of Wellington in 1962. After teaching in the universities of Sheffield, Durham, and Leeds in Britain, and at the State University of New York, Buffalo, he was appointed to Harvard’s Department of History in 1971, and was cross-appointed to the Department of the Classics in 1973.
  • He became John Moors Cabot Professor of History Emeritus in 1998. Badian was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974.
  • An active promoter of classical studies in the United States, he helped found The American Journal of Ancient History (1976), the Association of Ancient Historians (1974), and the New England Ancient History Colloquium. In 1999 Austria awarded him the Cross of Honor for Science and Art (Ă–sterreichische Ehrenkreuz fĂĽr Wissenschaft und Kunst).Badian died at the age of 85 after a fall in his Quincy, Massachusetts, home.
  • He was survived by his widow Nathlie, his children Hugh and Rosemary, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The Ernst Badian Collection of Roman Republican Coins is housed by the Special Collections and University Archives of the Rutgers University libraries. At the 2012 meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, ancient historians T.
  • Corey Brennan and Jerzy Linderski delivered papers reflecting on the historical methodologies employed by Badian.

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