Marcus Niebuhr Tod

Marcus Niebuhr Tod,

Born in Highgate on 24 November 1878, Tod's father was a Scottish tea merchant; his mother was the daughter of the Prussian courtier Marcus von Niebuhr, and the granddaughter of the German-Danish historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr. Tod was educated at St John's College, Oxford, as a scholar, taking a first-class BA in classics in 1901.^[1]

After graduating, Tod spent four years as a senior student at the

While at the British School in Athens, Tod became interested in Spartan epigraphy, and also carried out investigations in Laconia. These led to several articles on the topics and he worked with Alan Wace to produce a catalogue of the Spartan Museum in 1906. In 1912, he won the Conington Prize at Oxford for his essay "Greek International Arbitration" which was published in 1913. He wrote a chapter for the fifth volume of The Cambridge Ancient History (1927) and three of his lectures delivered at University College London were published as Sidelights on Greek History (1933). In 1933 and 1948, he published a two-volume work, Greek Historical Inscriptions.^[2]

Tod retired from his fellowship and readership at Oxford in 1947, but was elected to honorary fellowships at St John's and Oriel.^[1] He was also an honorary member of staff at the University of Birmingham. He received honorary doctorates from Trinity College Dublin, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Birmingham and the University of Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1929.^[2] He died on 21 February 1974.^[1]

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