Broneer, Oscar, 1894-1992

LC control no.	n 86050726
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Broneer, Oscar, 1894-1992 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Broneer, Oscar Theodore, 1894-1992
Birth date	1894-12-28
Death date	1992-02-22
Place of birth	Kalmar (Sweden)
Place of death	Corinth (Greece)
Field of activity	Archaeology Classical languages
Affiliation	University of Chicago American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Profession or occupation	College teachers Classicists Archaeologists
Found in	His Isthmia, 1987- : v. 4, CIP pref. (Oscar Broneer) LC data base, 7-21-87 (hdg.: Broneer, Oscar Theodore, 1894- ; usage: Oscar Broneer) BGMI, Nov. 4, 2008 (Broneer, Oscar Theodore (1894-1992)) SSDI, Nov. 4, 2008 (Broneer, Oscar T.; b. Dec. 28, 1894; d. Feb. 22, 1992) The south Stoa and its Roman successors, 1954: title page (by Oscar Broneer) Wikipedia, 14 March 2017 (Oscar Broneer; Oscar Theodore Broneer (December 28, 1894-February 22, 1992) was a prominent Swedish American educator and archaeologist known in particular for his work on Ancient Greece; he is most associated with his discovery of the Temple of Isthmia, an important Panhellenic shrine dating from the seventh century B.C.; Broneer was born in the parish of Bäckebo in Kalmar, Sweden; he left Sweden in 1913 for the United States; he first studied at Augustana College and then attended the University of California, Berkeley where it took Broneer only two years to earn both an M.A. and Ph. D.; Broneer was professor of archeology, classical languages and literature at the University of Chicago from 1949 until his retirement in 1960; he also served as director of the university excavations at Isthmia; he also held visiting professorships at the University of California at Los Angeles and Stanford University; he taught at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and worked for years at the Corinth Excavations; while working at Corinth he also developed the first systematic typology of ancient terracotta lamps; in 1952, Broneer famously discovered the temple of Poseidon at Isthmia on the very first day of the excavation; Broneer became the field director at Isthmia in 1952 and remained in charge until 1967; he died in Corinth, Greece and was buried in Hagia Anna cemetery)
Associated language	eng