Hammond, N. G. L. 1907-2001
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Name (Hebrew)
האמונד, ניקולס, 1907-2001
Name (Latin)
Hammond, N. G. L. 1907-2001
Other forms of name
Hammond, Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière
Hammond, Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière, 1907-2001
Hammond, N. G. L. (Nicholas Geoffrey Lempriere), 1907-
Date of birth
1907-11-15
Date of death
2001-03-21
Field of activity
Greek language
Greek literature
Occupation
College teachers
School principals
Soldiers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Wikipedia, 26 February 2015(N.G.L. Hammond; Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond; born 15 November 1907; died 24 March 2001; British scholar of ancient Greece and an operative for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) in occupied Greece during World War II; studied classics at Fettes College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; during World War II, because of his knowledge of the terrain and the languages, he participated in sabotage missions in Greece, Crete, and Albania; in 1944 he was in command of the Allied military mission to the Greek resistance in Thessaly and Macedonia; after the war he became senior tutor at Clare College, Cambridge; in 1954 became headmaster of Clifton College, Bristol; in 1962 became professor of Greek at Bristol University where he stayed until his retirement in 1973)
- His A history of Greece to 322 B.C., 1959.
- CA online, July 6, 2007(N(icholas) G(eoffrey) L(empriere) Hammond, b. Nov. 15, 1907; d. Mar. 21, 2001)
Wikipedia description:
Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond, (15 November 1907 – 24 March 2001) was a British historian, geographer, classicist and an operative for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) in occupied Greece during the Second World War. Hammond was seen as the leading expert on the history of ancient Macedonia. His trilogy, A History of Macedonia, has been described as the "most celebrated (and partly irreplaceable) work" on the subject. Additionally, he was recognised for his meticulous research on the geography, historical topography and history of ancient Epirus.
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