Year: 1993
Type: article
Abstract: In 1966 he became Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and returned to teaching his first love, ancient history. He was a meticulous scholar who held strong opinions about imperialism and nationalism in the Middle East, challenging many of the ideas fashionable among his students at the time. As befitted a scholar of classical Greek and Latin who also read modern Arabic, French, German and Italian, he was a vigorous critic of slovenly English, and I remember how the margins of my research papers would be filled with comments and corrections in a copperplate script. A avid hiker, he was active for many years in the Appalachian Mountain Club; indeed, I first met him at Pinkham Notch, where he, I and my wife's family were preparing to climb Mount
Author: Arthur Goldschmidt
Institution: Pennsylvania State University
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4251353956