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| • | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | [X] |
| | 1 | Name: | Dr. James S. Ackerman | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2000 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1919 | | | Death Date: | December 31, 2016 | | | | | | |
James Ackerman's first book, The Cortile del Belvedere (1954), brought clarity to the history of Bramante's largest palace commission through a balanced analysis of archival documents and drawings of the structure. The Architecture of Michelangelo (now in 3rd edition) marked a new stage in Michelangelo studies and has become the standard monograph both in English and Italian. His two volumes on Palladio have thoroughly revised our notions of the Venetian architect's work and provided a new understanding to the economic repertoire of villas built by Venetians on the mainland. Dr. Ackerman served as editor of the Art Bulletin of the College Art Association and of the Annali di Architettura of the Centro di Storia d'architettara in Vicenza. His early interest in the history of film led him to found the University Film Study Center for a consortium of universities in New England. His theoretical writings have made a substantial contribution to a non-Marxist social history of art. A professor at Harvard University since 1961, Dr. Ackerman held emeritus status since 1990. He has also taught at the University of California, Berkeley (1952-60), Cambridge University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University and New York University and has been honored with membership in the British Academy; the Royal Academy of Arts; the Accademia Olimpica; the Royal Academy of Uppsala; the Bavarian Academy of Sciences; and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He was awarded the International Balzan Prize (2002) and the Leone d'oro prize of the Biennale of Architecture at Venice (2008) for career achievement in the history of architecture and urbanism and was named an Honorary Citizen of Padua in 2008. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2000. James Ackerman died December 31, 2016, at the age of 97, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Carlos H. Baker | | | Year Elected: | 1982 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1909 | | | Death Date: | 4/18/87 | | | | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. Jacques Barzun | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 1984 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1907 | | | Death Date: | October 25, 2012 | | | | | | |
Jacques Barzun was born in France in 1907. He grew up in Paris and, at twelve years old, was sent by his father to the United States to receive an American university education. In 1923 he entered Columbia College and graduated four years later at the top of his class, having been a prize-winning president of the prestigious Philolexian Society. He went on to lecture at Columbia, where he earned his Ph.D in 1932, became a full professor in 1945, and later became Dean of the Graduate School, Dean of Faculties, and Provost. In 1967 he resigned from his administrative duties to focus on teaching and writing until his retirement in 1975.
Over seven decades, Barzun had written and edited more than forty books touching on an unusually broad range of subjects, including science and medicine; psychiatry from Robert Burton through William James to modern methods; art; and classical music - he was one of the all-time authorities on Hector Berlioz. After a period of poor health, he was advised that he had several years of life ahead, and this encouraged him to complete his last and largest book, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present (2000), which became an unexpected bestseller and critically acclaimed success. Dr. Barzun was widely known in America and in Europe as a trenchant critic of modern trends in education, music and the arts, and he is also a specialist in musical history. Among his many commendations, he had been featured on the cover of Time magazine (1956); he was awarded the Gold Medal for Criticism from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, to which society he was elected in 1952 and twice served as its president; and he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003 and he was awarded the 2010 National Humanities Medal by President Obama.
Jacques Barzun died October 25, 2012, at the age of 104 in San Antonio, Texas. | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. Gerald E. Bentley | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1970 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1901 | | | Death Date: | 7/25/94 | | | | |
| 5 | Name: | Dr. Eric A. Blackall | | | Institution: | Cornell University | | | Year Elected: | 1971 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1914 | | | Death Date: | 11/16/89 | | | | |
| 6 | Name: | Dr. Harold Bloom | | | Institution: | Yale University & New York University | | | Year Elected: | 1995 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1930 | | | Death Date: | October 14, 2019 | | | | | | |
Born in New York City in 1930, Harold Bloom, studied at Cornell University under Meyer Abrams before undertaking graduate work at Yale University. He received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1957 and has been a member of the faculty there since that time, becoming Sterling Professor of the Humanities in 1977. Also Berg Professor of English at New York University, Dr. Bloom is known for his notably original books on Shelley, Blake, Stevens, and Yeats as well as for his theory of poetic influence, which he voiced in a series of books including The Anxiety of Influence, A Map of Misreading, and Ruin the Sacred Truths. Advocating an aesthetic approach to literature that stands in opposition to more ideologically-driven studies, he has characterized literature as largely a creative process of borrowing and misreading. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1985. In 1994 Dr. Bloom published The Western Canon, a survey of the major literary works of post-Roman Europe. In 2011, at the age of 80, he wrote The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life, as a sort of "summing-up" of his decades of celebrated work. In 2015 he wrote The Daemon Knows. With his wit, brio and critical style, he is credited with revitalizing the Romantic poets and redefining modern ones. Harold Bloom died October 14, 2019 in New Haven, Connecticut at the age of 89. | |
| 7 | Name: | Mr. Robert Brentano | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 1996 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1926 | | | Death Date: | November 21, 2002 | | | | |
| 8 | Name: | Dr. Jonathan M. Brown | | | Institution: | New York University | | | Year Elected: | 1988 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1939 | | | Death Date: | January 17, 2022 | | | | | | |
Jonathan Brown has been Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, since 1976, and he has also taught at Princeton University, Oxford University and Williams College. A leading expert on Spanish art, particularly painting from the time of Velasquez and other masters of the Golden Age, he is the author of the highly acclaimed Velasquez: Painter and Courtier (1986) and Images and Ideas in Seventeenth Century Spanish Paintings (1978), among other works. Combining the approaches of the art historian with those of the historian of politics and society, Dr. Brown has significantly deepened and extended the appreciation of Spanish art and culture in the United States and has opened up fresh perspectives for research and a new generation of scholars. His other areas of expertise include colonial Latin American art and the history of art collecting. In recognition of his many contributions to the field of Spanish painting, he has received the Gran Cruz de la Orden de Alfonso X el Sabio and the Premio Elio Antonio Nebrija, the latter from the University of Salamanca, for lifetime achievement in Spanish studies. The phrase "images and ideas" is not only the title of one of Dr. Brown's books, but a description of his entire approach to art history. | |
| 9 | Name: | Dr. Marshall Clagett | | | Institution: | Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 1960 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1916 | | | Death Date: | October 20, 2005 | | | | |
| 10 | Name: | Dr. Frank Moore Cross | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1971 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1921 | | | Death Date: | October 16, 2012 | | | | | | |
A leading expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls, philologist Frank Moore Cross, Jr. has been affiliated with Harvard University for nearly fifty years. After earning a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1950, he joined the Harvard faculty in 1954; four years later he became curator of the Semitic Museum and Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages (presently Emeritus) at Harvard. An extraordinarily gifted scholar, he is the author of many first-class papers in learned and popular journals. His many books include The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic, and, as editor, the Hermeneia series of Old Testament commentaries and Qumran and the History of Biblical Text. In addition, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and has received several honorary degrees and prizes, including the William Foxwell Albright Award in Biblical Scholarship, the Israel Museum's Percia Schimmel Prize in Archaeology, and the Medalla de Honor of the University of Madrid. | |
| 11 | Name: | Dr. Lloyd W. Daly | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1976 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1910 | | | Death Date: | 2/26/89 | | | | |
| 12 | Name: | Dr. Wen C. Fong | | | Institution: | Princeton University & Metropolitan Museum of Art | | | Year Elected: | 1992 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1930 | | | Death Date: | October 3, 2018 | | | | | | |
A scholar of Chinese art history, Wen Fong was born in Shanghai and received a classical Chinese education, including training as a painter and calligrapher. In 1948 he went to Princeton University, where he earned his A.B. in 1951, joined the faculty as instructor after receiving his M.F.A. in 1954 and earned his Ph.D. in 1958. He was named the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Art History in 1971 and transferred to emeritus status in 1999. He was the author of works including The Problem of Forgeries in Chinese Paintings (1963), Summer Mountains: The Timeless Landscape (1975) and The Great Bronze Age of China (1980) and became widely recognized in both China and Japan through his many books and articles and frequent visits to the Far East. Dr. Fong also served as faculty curator of Asian art at the Princeton University Art Museum and helped strengthen the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Asian collection as a special consultant for Asian affairs and head of the Asian art department. After transferring to emeritus status at Princeton he was a professor at Tsinghua University from 2004-07 and Zheijang University 2009-12. Wen Fong died on October 3, 2018 in Princeton, New Jersey at the age of 88. | |
| 13 | Name: | Dr. Roland M. Frye | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1975 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1921 | | | Death Date: | January 13, 2005 | | | | |
| 14 | Name: | Dr. Charles C. Gillispie | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1972 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1918 | | | Death Date: | October 6, 2015 | | | | | | |
Charles Coulston Gillispie was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1918. At Wesleyan University he majored in chemistry with a minor in history, then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate study in chemical engineering. From 1942-46 he served in the United States Army in ranks from private to captain, becoming company commander in the 94th Chemical Mortar Battalion, XV Corps, Third Army, in the European Theater of Operations. Thereafter, he decided to become a historian rather than an engineer and was admitted to graduate study at Harvard University. Combining his technical background with his interest in history, Dr. Gillispie began the study of science as a factor in historical development. Joining the Princeton University faculty in 1947, he taught history while developing the lectures that would become the 1960 book The Edge of Objectivity. That same year he founded the Program in History and Philosophy of Science at Princeton, a collaborative venture between departments. During the 1960s and 1970s Dr. Gillispie also conceived, organized and edited the 16-volume Dictionary of Scientific Biography, which catalogued the careers of over 5,000 scientists from antiquity to the 20th century. The collection immediately established itself as the standard work of reference in the history of science. After serving as Directeur d'Etudes Associé at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris from 1980-85, Dr. Gillispie retired from the Princeton faculty in 1987 in order to devote himself to the completion of his scholarly undertakings. Publishing in both English and French, Dr. Gillispie has numerous books to his credit, including Lazare Carnot, Savant (1971); Science and Policy in France at the End of the Old Regime (1983); The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation (1983); Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827, a Life in Exact Science (1997); Science and Polity in France, The Revolutionary and Napoleon Years (2004); and Essays and Reviews in History and History of Science (2007). The recipient of the 1997 Balzan Prize for History and Philosophy of Science, he was a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Fellow of the British Academy and an Officier de l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1972. Charles Gillispie died October 6, 2015, at age 97, in Plainsboro, New Jersey. | |
| 15 | Name: | Dr. Herman H. Goldstine | | | Institution: | American Philosophical Society | | | Year Elected: | 1979 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1913 | | | Death Date: | June 16, 2004 | | | | |
| 16 | Name: | Dr. Philip Gossett | | | Institution: | University of Chicago; University of Rome | | | Year Elected: | 2008 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1941 | | | Death Date: | June 13, 2017 | | | | | | |
Philip Gossett was the Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Music and in the College at The University of Chicago, where he has been on the faculty since 1968. From 1989 to 1999 he was Dean of the Division of the Humanities. He had taught at the Universities of Paris, Parma, and Rome; in 1989 he delivered the Gauss Seminars at Princeton University in 1991, and in 2001 was the Hambro Visiting Professor of Opera Studies at Oxford University. In 2002-2003 he was a Visiting Scholar for Phi Beta Kappa and gave a series of seminars at the Beinecke Library of Yale University. In 2004 he had also become a Professor at the Università "La Sapienza" of Rome. Gossett was general editor of The Works of Giuseppe Verdi (published by The University of Chicago Press and G. Ricordi-Universal Music of Milan) and of Works of Gioachino Rossini (published by Bärenreiter Verlag, Kassel). He served on many editorial boards, including the critical editions of the works of Gaetano Donizetti, Vincenzo Bellini, Gilbert & Sullivan, and Kurt Weill, as well as several periodicals. He published widely in the area of Italian opera. His books include "Anna Bolena" and the Maturity of Gaetano Donizetti (Oxford, 1985) and Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera (The University of Chicago Press, 2006). The latter won the Kinkeldey award of the American Musicological Society in 2007 as the best book in music of the previous year and the Laing Prize of The University of Chicago Pressin 2008 for the recent book by a member of the University's faculty that brought the most "distinction" to the Press's list. The Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome, has published his studies of the autograph manuscripts of Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia (1993) and Donizetti's Don Pasquale (1999), together with facsimiles of these manuscripts. His scholarly articles have appeared in many journals and collections of essays. His 1971 translation of the Treatise on Harmony by Jean-Philippe Rameau continues to be used by music theorists. He also published essays on the compositional process of Beethoven and on music aesthetics. His notes are featured in opera programs in America and Europe and in many CDs. His essays have appeared in The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. Gossett worked closely with opera companies in the performance of operas based on the critical editions he supervised, including the Metropolitan Opera of New York, the Santa Fe Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, New York City Opera, the Teatro alla Scala of Milan, and Finnish National Opera. He served as the 'Consulente musicologica' for the Verdi Festival in Parma in 2000-2001 and played a similar role at the Rossini Opera Festival of Pesaro from 1980 through 2000. He also worked individually with numerous singers, suggesting repertory, writing embellishments, etc., including Cecilia Bartoli, Rockwell Blake, Renée Fleming, Cecilia Gasdia, Jennifer Larmore, Samuel Ramey, and Vivica Genaux. His edition of Verdi's La forza del destino, in collaboration with the late William Holmes, had its first performances in November 2005 at San Francisco Opera (1869 version) and at the Stadttheater of Bern in April 2006 (1862 version). Gossett earned his B.A., summa cum laude, from Amherst College in 1963 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1970. He held fellowships from the Fulbright program, the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation, the Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and received a Doctor of Humane Letters from Amherst College in 1993. He served as Vice President (1986-88), then President (1994-96) of the American Musicological Society, and President (1993-95) of the Society for Textual Scholarship. He was three times President of the Jury of the Premio Borciani competition for young String Quartets (1997, 2002, 2008). He was on the Board of Directors of the International Musicological Society and of Il Saggiatore Musicale. Among his other awards and honors are the Alfred Einstein award of the American Musicological Society (1969), the Quantrell award of The University of Chicago for excellence in undergraduate teaching (1974), the Medaglia d'Oro, prima classe, of the Italian Government (1985), the Deems Taylor Award of ASCAP (1986 and 2007), and the Order of Rio Branca of the Republic of Brazil (1998). He was an honorary member of the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna (1992), a socio straniero of the Ateneo Veneto (2001) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (2008), and an Accademico onorario of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome (2003). For his contributions to Italian culture, the Italian government named him a Grand Ufficiale dell'Ordine al Merito in 1997; in 1998 the President of Italy personally decorated him with the Cavaliere di Gran Croce, Italy's highest civilian honor. In 2004 he was granted a "Distinguished Achievement Award" by the Mellon Foundation, the first musicologist to be so honored. Philip Gossett was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2008. He died June 13, 2017, at age 75, in Chicago, Illinois. | |
| 17 | Name: | Dr. Lionel Gossman | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1996 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | Death Date: | January 11, 2021 | | | | | | |
Lionel Gossman was M. Taylor Pine Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Emeritus at Princeton University. His interests focus on the relationship between history and literature in 17th through 19th century Europe -- especially on problems of "humanistic education as it is and as it should be." Since 1976 he has taught courses at Princeton on 17th and 18th century French literature and on European literature and politics of the 19th century. Born in Scotland, Dr. Gossman earned his M.A. at the University of Glasgow in 1951 as well as a diplome d'études supérieures at the University of Paris in 1952 and his D. Phil. at Oxford in 1957. After teaching at the University of Lille and at Glasgow, he came to the United States in 1958 and joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University, where he taught until he came to Princeton as professor of Romance languages and literatures. He was appointed to the Pyne professorship in 1983, received the Behrman Award in 1990 and was named an Officier des Palmes Académiques in 1991. Ranging from Molière to the Enlightenment to Gibbon to Swiss culture, Dr. Gossman's publications include Men and Masks: A Study of Molière (1963), Medievalism and the Ideologies of the Enlightenment (1968), The Empire Unpossess'd (1981), Between History and Literature (1990),Geneva-Zurich-Basel: History, Culture and National Identity (with N. Bouvier et al., 1994) and Basel in the Age of Burckhardt. (2000). He died on January 11, 2021. | |
| 18 | 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? : |
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| | | 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. | |
| 19 | Name: | Dr. Hans G. Güterbock | | | Institution: | University of Chicago | | | Year Elected: | 1977 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1908 | | | Death Date: | March 29, 2000 | | | | |
| 20 | Name: | Dr. Zellig S. Harris | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1962 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1909 | | | Death Date: | 5/22/92 | | | | |
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