Subdivision
| • | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | [X] |
| | 41 | Name: | Dr. Charles A. Ryskamp | | | Institution: | The Frick Collection & Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1995 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1928 | | | Death Date: | March 26, 2010 | | | | | | |
Charles Ryskamp is a professor at Princeton University and the Director Emeritus and Honorary Fellow of the Pierpont Morgan Library and the Frick Collection. A stellar example of a scholar and distinguished museum administrator, Dr. Ryskamp has published works on 18th century English art and is also the co-editor of the multi-volume editions of the writings of William Cowper as well as editions of other English authors. His tenure at the Pierpont Library (1969-87) was marked by significant acquisitions and an ambitious series of scholarly exhibitions, and as director of the Frick Collection (1987-97), he succeeded in energizing a traditional institution without altering its character or mission. A graduate of Yale University (Ph.D., 1956), Dr. Ryskamp has since been affiliated with Princeton University for over 50 years. He is a member of the board of the Metropolitan Opera, the Library of America and a number of similar organizations and a past president of the Association of Art Museum Directors and the Master Drawings Association. | |
| 42 | Name: | Dr. Edward W. Said | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 2000 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1935 | | | Death Date: | September 24, 2003 | | | | |
| 43 | Name: | Dr. Åke W. Sjöberg | | | Institution: | The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1924 | | | Death Date: | August 8, 2014 | | | | | | |
Of great eminence in the highly specialized field of Sumerian literature and history, Ake W. Sjöberg became the Clark Research Professor of Assyriology Emeritus and Curator-in-Charge Emeritus at the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, in 1996. He had been affiliated with the university since 1966 as a professor and as curator of its Tablets Collections. As the founder of the Pennsylvanian Sumerian Dictionary Project, he continued the tradition of painstaking scholarship established by his predecessor, Dr. Samuel Kramer, as he and others worked to unlock the secrets of an ancient language and civilization that flourished five millennia ago. A native of Sweden, Dr. Sjoberg held a Fil.Dr. degree (1960) and T,eol. Dr. W.C. (1984) from the University of Uppsala. He served as a docent there (1960-63) as well as as a lecturer, assistant and associate professor at the Oriental Institute of Chicago (1963-66) prior to arriving at Penn. He returned to Sweden after his retirement and died August 8, 2014, at age 90, in Uppsala, Sweden. | |
| 44 | Name: | Dr. Henry Nash Smith | | | Year Elected: | 1981 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1906 | | | Death Date: | 5/30/86 | | | | |
| 45 | Name: | Dr. Craig Hugh Smyth | | | Institution: | Harvard University & New York University | | | Year Elected: | 1979 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1915 | | | Death Date: | December 22, 2006 | | | | |
| 46 | Name: | Dr. Frederich Solmsen | | | Institution: | University of Wisconsin | | | Year Elected: | 1966 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1904 | | | Death Date: | 1/30/89 | | | | |
| 47 | Name: | Dr. Noel M. Swerdlow | | | Institution: | University of Chicago; California Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 1988 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1941 | | | Death Date: | July 24, 2021 | | | | | | |
A leading authority in the history of mathematical astronomy, Noel M. Swerdlow is a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology as well as Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics and of History at the University of Chicago. He has served on the Chicago faculty since 1982. Based on an outstanding knowledge of the sources ranging from Oriental to Western and extending over the period from early antiquity to the Copernican, his research is primarily concerned with the history of the exact science from antiquity through the seventeenth century. In his teaching he covers the history of the physical sciences in general. Dr. Swerdlow's published work includes "On Copernicus' Theory of Precession" (1975), "Blackstone's Newtonian Dissent" (1994), "Astronomy in the Renaissance" (1996) and "The Babylonian Theory of the Planets" (1998). He earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1968. | |
| 48 | Name: | Dr. Owsei Temkin | | | Institution: | Johns Hopkins University | | | Year Elected: | 1958 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1902 | | | Death Date: | July 18, 2002 | | | | |
| 49 | Name: | Dr. Craig R. Thompson | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1911 | | | Death Date: | 10/4/96 | | | | |
| 50 | Name: | Dr. Kirk Varnedoe | | | Institution: | Institute for Advanced Study & The Museum of Modern Art | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1946 | | | Death Date: | August 14, 2003 | | | | |
| 51 | Name: | Dr. Lynn T. White | | | Year Elected: | 1968 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1907 | | | Death Date: | 3/30/87 | | | | |
| 52 | Name: | Dr. Theodore J. Ziolkowski | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1984 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1932 | | | Death Date: | December 5, 2020 | | | | | | |
Theodore Ziolkowski was the Class of 1900 Professor of German and Comparative Literature Emeritus and former Dean of the Graduate School at Princeton University. He has been affiliated with the university since 1964, before which time he taught at Yale University (1956-62) and Columbia University (1962-64). A fascinating and elegant writer on literary subjects, he has a broad and respected knowledge of German and European literature of recent centuries. The editor of collections of letters and critical essays by Hermann Hesse, Dr. Ziolkowski is also the author of works such as Novels of Hermann Hesse (1965); Dimensions of the Modern Novel (1969); Fictional Transfigurations of Jesus (1972); Disenchanted Images (1977); The Classical German Elegy (1980); The Institutions of German Romanticism (1990); The Mirror of Justice (1997); The Sin of Knowledge: Ancient Themes and Modern Variations (2000); Ovid and the Moderns (2004); Modes of Faith (2007); Minos and the Moderns: Cretan Myth in Twentieth Century Literature and Art (2008); Gilgamesh among Us: Modern Encounters with the Ancient Epic (2012), and five volumes in German on German Romanticism. He died on December 5, 2020 in Bethlehem, PA. | |
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