Badian, Ernst (1925–2011), historian of ancient Greece and Rome, was born on 8 August 1925 in Vienna, the only child of Josef (Joseph) Badian (1893–1965), bank clerk, and his wife, Salka (Sally), née Horinger (1894–1965). Jewish by descent, he experienced the organized anti-Jewish mob violence of ...
Article
Badian, Ernst (1925–2011), historian of ancient Greece and Rome
T. Corey Brennan
Article
Finlay, George (1799–1875), philhellene and historian
J. M. Hussey
Finlay, George (1799–1875), philhellene and historian, the younger son of Major John Finlay RE FRS (1757–1802) and Helen (née Thomson) and the grandson of James Finlay, a Glasgow merchant, was born on 21 December 1799 at Faversham, Kent. His father died in 1802, and in 1805 his mother married ...
Image
Finlay, George (1799–1875)
Maker: Charles Henry Jeens
In
George Finlay (1799–1875) by Charles Henry Jeens Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
