| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Oleg Grabar | | | Institution: | Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 1990 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | Death Date: | January 8, 2011 | | | | | | |
Oleg Grabar's research had a profound and far-reaching influence on the study of Islamic art and architecture. His extensive archaeological expeditions and research trips cover the vast expanse of the Islamic world in Africa, the Middle East, and Muslim Asia. With his knowledge of Arabic texts, Dr. Grabar explored in highly original ways the semiotic relations between art and literature. His publications cover numismatics, epigraphy, archaeology, manuscript illumination, calligraphy and architecture; they include Epic Images and Contemporary History: The Illustrations of the Great Mongol Shahnama (1982); The Mediation of Ornament (1992); Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Post-Classical World (with Glen Bowersock and Peter Brown, 1999); The Art and Architecture of Islam 650-1250 (with Richard Ettinghausen and Marilyn Jenkins-Madina, 2001); Mostly Miniatures (2002); Islamic Art: The Decorated Page from the 8th to the 17th Century (2009), and (edited with B. Kedar) Where Heaven and Earth Meet (2009). Dr. Grabar received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1955 and taught at the University of Michigan from 1954-69 before moving to Harvard University, becoming Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture in 1980. In 1990 he joined the Institute for Advanced Study, becoming Professor Emeritus in 1998. He was a member of the Medieval Academy of America, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the British Academy. Dr. Grabar's breadth, dynamic presence, remarkable productivity and technical competence as an excavator made him one of the leading Islamic art historians in the world. Oleg Grabar died on January 8, 2011, at the age of 81, at his home in Princeton, New Jersey. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. John L. Heilbron | | | Institution: | Worcester College, Oxford & University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 1990 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404c | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1934 | | | | | | |
John Heilbron spent most of his career at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also earned his academic degrees. He was Professor of History and Director, Office for the History of Science and Technology, 1973-1994, and the University's Vice Chancellor, 1990-1994. Since his retirement, Dr. Heilbron has acted as visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology and Yale University, while continuing as editor of Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences. He is an Honorary Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, and the recipient of several honorary degrees. Among his awards is the 2006 Pais Prize for History of Physics, presented jointly by the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics. Dr. Heilbron's books include Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries (1979, reprinted in 1999); Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck as Spokesman of German Science (1986, reprinted in 2000); Geometry Civilized (1998); The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories (1999); as general editor, The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (2003); Galileo (2010); The History of Physics, a Very Short Introduction (2018); Niels Bohr, a Very Short Introduction (2019); The Ghost of Galileo in a Forgotten Painting from the English Civil War (2021); and The Incomparable Monsignor, Francesco Bianchini's World of Science, History, and Court Intrigue (2022). John Heilbron was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1990. | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. David Herlihy | | | Institution: | Brown University | | | Year Elected: | 1990 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1930 | | | Death Date: | 2/21/91 | | | | |
| 4 | Name: | Sir Dimitri Obolensky | | | Institution: | University of Oxford | | | Year Elected: | 1990 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1918 | | | Death Date: | December 23, 2001 | | | | |
| 5 | Name: | Dr. Ludo Rocher | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1990 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1926 | | | Death Date: | November 2, 2016 | | | | | | |
Ludo Rocher brought to Sanskrit studies the rigorous philological training of a classicist and the persuasive talents of a lawyer. He was W. Norman Brown Professor of South Asian Studies Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, where he had taught since 1966, Dr. Rocher was born in Belgium and was a graduate of the University of Ghent (LL.D., 1950; Ph.D., 1952). His publications, including over 140 articles on subjects ranging from Indian law and philosophy to Sanskrit grammar and Hindi, reflect Dr. Rocher's devotion to the traditions of Western scholarship and his mastery both of the latter and of the Indian sastras. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, where he had chaired the Department of Oriental Studies and the Department of South Asia Regional Studies, Dr. Rocher taught Sanskrit and comparative philology at the University of Brussels (1959-67), directing its Center for Study of South and Southeast Asia from 1961-67. A past president of the American Oriental Society, Dr. Rocher was also a fellow of the Royal Academy for Overseas Science, Belgium and of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta, where he had frequently conducted research. Ludo Rocher died November 2, 2016, at age 90, at home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | |
| 6 | Name: | Dr. Brian Tierney | | | Institution: | Cornell University | | | Year Elected: | 1990 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1922 | | | Death Date: | November 30, 2019 | | | | | | |
Internationally recognized as a leading scholar of medieval canon law, Brian Tierney was among the most distinguished intellectual historians of the Middle Ages. After serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II, Dr. Tierney received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Cambridge University. He taught at Catholic University and at Cornell University, where was the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies Emeritus. He was the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowships and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities and was awarded the honorary degrees of Doctor of Theology from Uppsala University, Sweden, and Doctor of Humane Letters from Catholic University. He was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and in 1994 he received the Award for Academic Distinction of the American Historical Association. Dr. Tierney authored many articles and several books, including Foundations of the Conciliar Theory (1955), Medieval Poor Law (1959), The Crisis of Church and State, 1050-1300 (1964), Origins of Papal Infallibility, 1150-1350 (1972) Religion, Law and the Growth of Constitutional Thought, 1150-1650 (1981), and The Idea of Natural Rights, Studies on Natural Rights, Natural Law and Church Law, 1150-1625. Brian Tierney died November 30, 2019 in Syracuse, New York at the age of 97. | |
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