Lawrence Richardson Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lawrence Richardson Jr.

American classical philologist and archaeologist

Date of Birth: 02-Dec-1920

Place of Birth: Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 21-Jul-2013

Profession: historian, university teacher, classical scholar, classical archaeologist, classical philologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Lawrence Richardson Jr.
(December 2, 1920 in Altoona, Pennsylvania – July 21, 2013 in Durham, North Carolina) was an American Classicist and ancient historian educated at Yale University who was a member of the faculty of classics at Duke University from 1966 to 1991.
He was married to the Classical archaeologist Emeline Hill Richardson.
Richardson received numerous fellowships, including a Fulbright, a Guggenheim, and support from the American Council of Learned Societies.
He was a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome (1950) and field director of the AAR's Cosa excavations (1952–1955).
He was a Resident of the American Academy in Rome (1979), and served as the American Academy in Rome’s Mellon Professor-in-Charge of the School of Classical Studies (1981).
In 2012 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America.Richardson's research included interests in Roman domestic architecture, the sites of Pompeii and Cosa, and Roman wall painting.