Henry R. Immerwahr, 97, emeritus professor of classics at the University of North Carolina, passed away peacefully at the Carol Woods Retirement Community on September 15, 2013 after a short illness. He was born on February 28, 1916 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), the oldest of Kurt Immerwahr and Johanna Freund Immerwahr's three children. He left Germany to attend the University of Florence in Italy (1934-38), where he received a Dottore in Lettere. While in Florence he was offered a fellowship to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. There he met Sara Anderson, the fellow student and archaeologist who became his wife. As the war in Europe erupted, Henry immigrated to the United States, where he spent two years as a graduate student at Yale (PhD 1942) before serving in the US Army. After the war, he taught at Yale for ten years, and in 1957, joined the Classics Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as Professor of Greek. In 1977, he was appointed Director of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. His monograph, Form and Thought in Herodotus, was published in 1966 and Attic Script: A Survey in 1990. He established an online version of the Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions.
Henry R. Immerwahr, 97, emeritus professor of classics at the University of North Carolina, passed away peacefully at the Carol Woods Retirement Community on September 15, 2013 after a short illness. He was born on February 28, 1916 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), the oldest of Kurt Immerwahr and Johanna Freund Immerwahr's three children. He left Germany to attend the University of Florence in Italy (1934-38), where he received a Dottore in Lettere. While in Florence he was offered a fellowship to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. There he met Sara Anderson, the fellow student and archaeologist who became his wife. As the war in Europe erupted, Henry immigrated to the United States, where he spent two years as a graduate student at Yale (PhD 1942) before serving in the US Army. After the war, he taught at Yale for ten years, and in 1957, joined the Classics Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as Professor of Greek. In 1977, he was appointed Director of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. His monograph, Form and Thought in Herodotus, was published in 1966 and Attic Script: A Survey in 1990. He established an online version of the Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions.
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