Ettore Pais, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian historian of classical antiquity and classical archaeologist
Date of Birth: 27-Jul-1856
Place of Birth: Borgo San Dalmazzo, Piedmont, Italy
Date of Death: 28-Mar-1939
Profession: politician, university teacher, classical scholar, classical archaeologist, historian of classical antiquity
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Ettore Pais
- Ettore Pais (July 27, 1856, Borgo San Dalmazzo, Piedmont, Italy – 1939, Rome) was an ancient historian, Latin epigrapher, and an Italian politician.Pais was the son of Michele Pais Leoni, a nobleman from Sassari, Sardinia and Carlotta Tranchero, from Piemonte.
- He studied at Lucca and Florence from 1874, receiving his degree from Florence in 1878.
- Among his teachers were Atto Vannucci and the philologist Domenico Comparetti.
- After spending some years in Sardinia, he published La Sardegna prima del dominio romano in 1881.
- That same year he studied at Berlin with Theodor Mommsen and the two collaborated on the fifth volume the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum that was published in 1884.
- He began his teaching career in Palermo in 1886 and moved to Pisa in 1888 where he would become professor of ancient history.
- Pais stayed there until 1899, when he began teaching at Naples, and later the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1905.
- From 1910 to 1914 he was director of the Naples National Archaeological Museum and the excavations at Pompeii.
- Pais studied as a visiting scholar at leading universities around the world and received many honorary degrees, including those granted to him by the following: professor of history and Roman law from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, honorary degrees at Oxford, Chicago and Paris.
- He taught courses in Paris at the Sorbonne, in Bucharest, Prague, Madrid, Barcelona, Boston, Cambridge, New York, and Chicago. In 1911 he published La civiltĂ dei nuraghi e lo sviluppo sociologico della Sardegna and in 1923 Storia della Sardegna e della Corsica durante il dominio romano.
- From 1923 until 1931 he was professor at the University of Rome and, from 1922 until his death, served in the Italian senate.
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