| | 1 | Name: | Prof. Edward Toner Cone | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1991 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402. Criticism: Arts and Letters | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1917 | | | Death Date: | October 23, 2004 | | | | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Ludwig Koenen | | | Institution: | University of Michigan | | | Year Elected: | 1991 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402b | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | Death Date: | May 9, 2023 | | | | | | |
Ludwig Koenen has taught at the University of Michigan since 1975. As Herbert C. Youtie Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Papyrology, he is regarded as one of the world's most renowned papyrologists. His research has centered primarily on the religious history of the Roman Empire, especially the period in which Orthodox Christianity became established as a state religion. He has served as chair of the university's Department of Classical Studies and has overseen the organization, cataloguing and preparation for publication of its papyri collection, the largest in the Western Hemisphere. Dr. Koenen received his Ph.D. from the University of Cologne in 1957 and taught there from that time until his tenure at Michigan. He has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and, since 1975, has been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute. He has also served as president of the American Philological Association. | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. A. Walton Litz | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1991 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402. Criticism: Arts and Letters | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | Death Date: | June 4, 2014 | | | | | | |
Arthur Walton Litz was Holmes Professor of English Emeritus at Princeton University, on whose faculty he served since 1958. One of the foremost scholars and critics of modern English and American literature, especially the novels and poems of James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens and Jane Austen, Dr. Litz authored a number of essays, articles and books, including The Art of James Joyce (1961), Modern Literary Criticism (1972) and Introspective Voyager: The Poetic Development of Wallace Stevens (1972). He held a D. Phil. degree from Oxford University and also taught at Bryn Mawr College, Swarthmore College, Temple University and Bread Loaf School. A Rhodes Scholar and Guggenheim Fellow, Dr. Litz also served as associate editor of the 63-volume Joyce Archive as well as on the editorial boards of the Princeton University Press and Oxford University Press. He was honored with awards including the Harbison Award for Gifted Teaching (1972) and Princeton's Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities (1981). He died June 4, 2014, at the age of 84 in Princeton. | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. Helen F. North | | | Institution: | Swarthmore College | | | Year Elected: | 1991 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1921 | | | Death Date: | January 21, 2012 | | | | | | |
Helen North was the Centennial Professor of Classics Emerita at Swarthmore College at the time of her death January 21, 2012. She had taught at Swarthmore 1948-91. She began studying Latin at Utica Free Academy and Greek at Cornell University, where she received an A.B. in 1942 and a Ph.D. in 1945. In addition to Swarthmore, she taught at Rosary College, Barnard College and Columbia University, LaSalle College, Vassar College, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and the American Academy in Rome. Her publications included Sophrosyne: Self-Knowledge and Self-Restraint in Greek Literature, which received the Goodwin Award of the American Philological Association in 1969, and From Myth to Icon: Reflections of Greek Ethical Doctrine in Literature and Art (Martin Classical Lecture, 1972). Dr. North edited Interpretations of Plato: A Swarthmore Symposium (1977) and co-edited Of Eloquence: Studies in Ancient and Mediaeval Rhetoric by Harry Caplan (1969) and (with Mary C. North) The West of Ireland: A Megalithic Primer (1999) and Cork and the Rest of Ireland: A Megalithic Primer II (2003). She also translated Milton's Second Defense of the English People in the Yale Complete Works (1966). Recent articles and lectures dealt with Plato's rhetoric, Cicero's oratory and rhetoric, and Hestia and Vesta in Greek and Roman cult. Helen North chaired the Phi Beta Kappa Committee on Visiting Scholars and was an editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas. In 1995, she received the Centennial Medal of the American Academy in Rome, on whose Board she served from 1972 to 1991. In 1996 she was awarded the Medal for Distinguished Service from the American Philological Association, of which she was President in 1976. Dr. North was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society in 1991. She died in Swarthmore at the age of 90. | |
| 5 | Name: | Dr. Heiko A. Oberman | | | Institution: | University of Arizona | | | Year Elected: | 1991 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1930 | | | Death Date: | April 22, 2001 | | | | |
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