| LC control no. | n 84040328 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Ventris, Michael |
| Birth date | 1922-07-12 |
| Death date | 1956-09-06 |
| Place of birth | Wheathampstead (England) |
| Place of death | Hatfield (Hertfordshire, England) |
| Field of activity | Inscriptions, Linear B |
| Profession or occupation | Architects Linguists Cryptographers |
| Found in | Bennett, E.L. The Knossos tablets, 1959: t.p. (Michael Ventris) LC data base, 8-30-84 (hdg.: Ventris, Michael) His Work notes on Minoan language ... 1988: t.p. (Michael Ventris) pref. (b. 07/12/22; d. 09/06/56) History of classical scholarship : a biographical dictionary (Brill's new Pauly supplement 6), 2014: page 630 (Michael Ventris; British architect and linguist; born Michael George Francis Ventris 12.7.1922 in Wheathampstead (Herts.); died 6.9.1956 in Hatfield (Herts.); studied Latin and Greek at school; studied architecture in London; after World War II was an architect and amateur cryptographer; deciphered Linear B with John Chadwick in 1952) |
| Associated language | eng |
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