Oscar Broneer

Oscar Theodore Broneer (December 28, 1894 in Bäckebo, Sweden – February 22, 1992, in Corinth, Greece) was a prominent Swedish American archaeologist of the twentieth century known in particular for his work on Ancient Greece.

Biography

Broneer left Sweden in 1913 for the United States. He studied at Augustana College and then attended the University of California, Berkeley. It took Broneer only two years at Berkeley to earn both an M.A. and Ph.D. Afterwards, he taught at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and worked for years at the Corinth Excavations, where he excavated, studied, and published the South Stoa and the odeum. In the late 1930s he worked in Northern Greece and described the re-erection of the monumental Lion of Amphipolis in the book 'The Lion of Amphipolis' published in 1941. He returned to an impoverished Greece immediately after World War II as a member of the Red Cross. He also directed "Triumph Over Time", a fundraising film issued by the American School of Classical Studies in Athens (well worth watching for its documentation of Greece shortly after the War). While working at Corinth he also developed the first systematic typology of ancient terracotta lamps. In 1952, Broneer famously discovered the temple of Poseidon at Isthmia on the very first day of the excavation.[1] Broneer became the field director at Isthmia in 1952 and remained in charge until 1967. He published several books in his career. In 1962, the Greek government honored him with the honorary command of the Royal Hellenic Order of the Phoenix. He received the Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America in 1969. His full bibliography can be found in Hesperia 43 (1974).[2] He was buried in Hagia Anna cemetery, Corinth, Greece beside his first wife, Verna Anderson, who died in 1948.

Gallery

Bibliography

See also

References

  1. ↑ Oscar Broneer; Mary Carol Sturgeon (1971). Isthmia: Temple of Poseidon. The School.
  2. ↑ BIBLIOGRAPHY OF OSCAR THEODORE BRONEER http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/pdf/uploads/hesperia/147485.pdf
  3. ↑ Oscar Broneer (1941). The lion monument at Amphipolis. Harvard University Press.

External links