William Bell Dinsmoor
William Bell Dinsmoor Sr. | |
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| Born | July 29, 1886 William Bell Dinsmoor Jr. , Frances Atheniese Dinsmoor Sandstone |
William Bell Dinsmoor Sr. (July 29, 1886 – July 2, 1973) was an American architectural historian of classical Greece and a Columbia University professor of art and archaeology.[1][2]
Biography
He was born on July 29, 1886, in Windham, New Hampshire.[2]
Dinsmoor graduated from
Athens, Greece on July 2, 1973.[2]
Legacy
Dinsmoor's full bibliography is collected in the journal Hesperia.[5]
Dinsmoor is best known for two major works. The first of these is his complete rewriting of The Architecture of Ancient Greece (1927).eponymous archons of Hellenistic Athens. The book is fundamental for Athenian chronology.
His son,
William Bell Dinsmoor Jr., was also a distinguished classical architectural historian.[2]
Bibliography
- Bibliography of William Bell Dinsmoor; Hesperia 35 (1966): 87–92.
- (1st Dinsmoor edition:) Anderson, William J., and Spiers, Richard Phené. The Architecture of Ancient Greece: an Account of its Historic Development, being the First Part of the Architecture of Greece and Rome. 2nd ed. New York: C. Scribner's,1927.
- The Architecture of Ancient Greece: an Account of its Historic Development. 3rd ed. New York: Batsford, 1950.
- Observations on the Hephaisteion. Baltimore: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1941.
- The Archons of Athens in the Hellenistic Age. Cambridge, MA: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Harvard University Press, 1931.
- "An Archaeological Earthquake at Olympia". American Journal of Archaeology 45 (1941) 399–427.
- "Anchoring two floating temples [of the Agora, Athens]." Hesperia 51 (October/December 1982): 410–52.
- "The Burning of the Opisthodomos at Athens. I: The Date". American Journal of Archaeology 36 (1932): 143–172.
- "The Burning of the Opisthodomos at Athens. II: The Site". American Journal of Archaeology 36 (1932): 307–326. [reply, Wilhelm Dörpfeld. "Der Brand des alten Athena-Tempels und seines Opisthodoms. American Journal of Archaeology 38 (April 1934): 249–57; reply, continued, Wilhelm Dörpfeld. "Parthenon I, II und III". American Journal of Archaeology 39 (October 1935): 497–507; [rejoinder by Dinsmoor] "The Older Parthenon, Additional Notes". American Journal of Archaeology 39 (October 1935): 508–9
Further reading
- Medwid, Linda M. The Makers of Classical Archaeology: A Reference Work. New York: Humanity Books, 2000 pp. 86–88.
- [obituaries:] “W. B. Dinsmoor, 87, an Archaeologist; Expert on Greece Is Dead--Long on Columbia Faculty.” New York Times July 3, 1973, p. 26; Archaeology 26 (October 1973): 308.
- A History of the Faculty of Philosophy, Columbia University. New York: Columbia University Press, 1957, p. 54, 263–64.
- Nicgorski, Ann M. "Dinsmoor, William Bell." Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology. Nancy Thomson de Grummond, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996, vol. 1, pp. 363–64.
References
- ^ New York Times. September 30, 1960. Retrieved 2010-12-28.
Mrs. Zillah Pierce Dinsmoor of 430 West Street, wife of Dr. William Bell Dinsmoor, archaeologist and professor emeritus at Columbia University, ...
- ^ New York Times. July 3, 1973. Retrieved 2010-12-28.
William Bell Dinsmoor, an archeologist who devoted a lifetime to the study of ancient Greek architecture, died today in a hospital of a stroke. He would have been 87 years old July 29. ...
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
- ^ "William Bell Dinsmoor". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
- JSTOR 147298.
- ^ William James Anderson; Richard Phené Spiers; William Bell Dinsmoor (1927). The Architecture of Ancient Greece: An Account of Its Historic Development : Being the First Part of The Architecture of Greece and Rome. B.T. Batsford, Limited.
