C. Bradford Welles, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

C. Bradford Welles

American historian

Date of Birth: 09-Aug-1901

Place of Birth: Deep River, Connecticut, United States

Date of Death: 08-Oct-1969

Profession: historian, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About C. Bradford Welles

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  • Bradford Welles (August 9, 1901 – October 8, 1969) was an American Classicist and ancient historian, born in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
  • His academic career was at Yale University.
  • He received a B.A.
  • in 1924, a Ph.D.
  • in 1928, became an instructor in 1927, an assistant professor in 1931, an associate professor in 1939 and professor in 1940.
  • At his death he was professor of ancient history and curator of the Yale Collection of Papyri.
  • He was profoundly influenced by the great ancient historian Michael I.
  • Rostovtzeff, who arrived at Yale in 1925. In 1934 he published his first book, Royal Correspondence in the Hellenistic Period, a collection of inscriptions with commentary still widely cited today.
  • His major academic interests lay in Greek epigraphy, papyrology, and the history and archaeology of the Near East and Egypt in the Hellenistic and Roman periods.
  • He was the editor of a series of volumes on the archaeological excavations at Dura-Europos and published the papyri found there.
  • He was a founder and the first president of the American Society of Papyrologists, from which he received a Festschrift in 1966. During World War II, he served as an Army officer, stationed in Cairo from October 1944 until August 1946; there he headed the Office of Strategic Services, Counter Espionage Section, Middle East.
  • He had technical control of all X-2 operations in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Trans-Jordan, Lebanon, the Levant States, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan.
  • For this work, King George VI appointed him an Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
  • He was a colonel in the Office of G-2 in the Pentagon during the Korean War.
  • On October 23, 1927, he married Eleanor Bogert, the daughter of George Henry Bogert, an American landscape painter, and they had two sons.

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