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ULRICH WILCKEN (December 18, 1862 - December 10, 1944) was a German historian and writer, predominantly in the fields of ancient history, legal studies, paleography, and epigraphy. He was also one ...view moreULRICH WILCKEN (December 18, 1862 - December 10, 1944) was a German historian and writer, predominantly in the fields of ancient history, legal studies, paleography, and epigraphy. He was also one of the founders of papyrology.
A native of Stettin, Wilcken studied Ancient History and Oriental Studies in Leipzig, Tübingen and Berlin under historian Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903). Mommsen encouraged Wilcken to become a cataloguer of papyri on graduation and was also instrumental in Wilcken succeeding Eduard Meyer (1855-1930) as associate professor of ancient history at the University of Breslau in 1889. Wilcken went on to teach at a number of leading German universities and was subsequently made University Professor at Berlin in 1917.
He was a German pioneer of Greco-Roman papyrology and is credited for amassing an extensive archive of Ptolemaic papyri documents and ostraca.
He was a member of the Saxon Society of Sciences (1906) and the Prussian Academy of Sciences (1921).
He died in 1944 at the age of 81.
GEORGE CHATTERTON RICHARDS (1867-1951) was the Vicar of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford and a Professor of Greek and Classical Literature at Oriel College, Oxford University.
Born in Churchover, Warwickshire, he was admitted to the British School at Athens (BSA) after his studies as Craven University Fellow (1889-1890). He returned to England in 1891 and was appointed to the chair of Greek at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff, a post he held until 1898. He was then ordained deacon in 1895 and served as curate at St John the Baptist, Cardiff, acting as chaplain to the university.
Following a two-year directorship position in Athens from 1897-1899, Richards returned to Oxford as fellow, chaplain, and tutor at Oriel College. He also served as Vicar of St. Mary’s, Oxford from 1923-1927 before being appointed to the chair of Greek at the University of Durham in 1927.
He died in 1951.view less