| | 1 | Name: | Dr. James Barr | | | Institution: | Vanderbilt University | | | Year Elected: | 1993 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1924 | | | Death Date: | October 14, 2006 | | | | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Martin Ostwald | | | Institution: | Swarthmore College & University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1993 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1922 | | | Death Date: | April 10, 2010 | | | | | | |
Martin Ostwald is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Classics at Swarthmore College as well as Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. With scholarly interests in the field of ancient Greek political thought and institutions, he is considered among the most influential and productive students of his time in both classical literature and ancient history. Born in Dortmund, Germany in 1922, Dr. Ostwald escaped the Nazi occupation and Sachsenhausen concentration camp as a youth, fleeing first to Holland, then to England and Canada before settling in the United States. After studying and teaching Greek and Latin in refugee camps, he received his higher education in classics at the Universities of Toronto (B.A., 1946) and Chicago (A.M., 1948) and at Columbia University (Ph.D., 1952). Dr. Ostwald has held teaching posts at Wesleyan University (1950-51), Columbia University (1951-58), Swarthmore College (1958-92) and the University of Pennsylvania (1968-92). At Swarthmore, he taught honors seminars that combined Germanic philological rigor with a relaxed, conversational style while also maintaining a joint appointment with the University of Pennsylvania, which allowed him to continue research on fifth-century Athens with Penn graduate students. He held this dual role for 20 years. Dr. Ostwald has also published widely, and his magnum opus, From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law, in which he examined the political and social tensions within ancient Athens, has been praised as an indispensable work of political, social, and cultural history. Among his other works are Aristotle, the Nichomachean Ethics (1962); Nomos and the Beginnings of the Athenian Democracy (1969); From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law (1987); and Ananke in Thucydides (1988). A past president of the American Philological Association, Dr. Ostwald was elected to the membership of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1991 and the American Philosophical Society in 1993. | |
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