John G. Hawthorne

John G. Hawthorne
Born John Greenfield Hawthorne
(1915-06-06)6 June 1915
Newcastle, England
Died 8 March 1977(1977-03-08) (aged 61)
Spouse(s) Dolores Bandini
Children 2
Academic background
Education Honours degree in classics, University of Cambridge, 1937
M.A. classics, Harvard University, 1939
Master's degree, University of Cambridge, 1946
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1949
Academic work
Discipline Classicist; archaeologist
Institutions University of Chicago

John Greenfield Hawthorne (6 June 1915 – 8 March 1977)[1] was an English and American archaeologist and academic. He was known for his works on Greek literature, and translations, and in 1963 published, with Cyril Stanley Smith, a translation of the works on metallurgy by Theophilus.

Early life and education

John Greenfield Hawthorne was born in Newcastle, England.[2][3] He had two brothers, Edward and William.[2] In 1937 he graduated with an honours degree in classics from Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge, and two years later received a master's degree from Harvard University.[2] During World War II Hawthorne served in many diplomatic posts, including commercial attaché in the British Embassy in Belgium.[2] In 1946 he was awarded another master's, this one by Cambridge.[2] Three years later, while a professor at the University of Chicago, he obtained a Ph.D. from that school,[2] at the time one of the very few schools to offer a doctorate in classics.[4]

Career

Hawthorne was named an assistant professor at the University of Chicago in 1946.[2] In 1952 he was made an associate professor of classics, and from 1957 to 1960 he chaired the department.[2] From 1956 to 1953, he was also the president of the Chicago Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.[2] In 1957 he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to undertake research at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece,[5] where he also conducted excavations.[6][7][8] He lectured on the subject of archaeology, including as a visitor to places like the University of Iowa.[9]

In 1963 Hawthorne, together with Cyril Stanley Smith, published a translation of the works on metallurgy by Theophilus. The book took a technical approach, and followed a 1961 translation by Charles Reginald Dodwell that took a philological approach.[10] As Lynn Townsend White Jr. wrote, "[h]enceforth anyone dealing with Theophilus must read both these books simultaneously, one in each hand. While Smith and Hawthorne built on Dodwell, the latter, save in specific instances, remains authoritative for the Latin text ... Smith, on the other hand, being one of the world's eminent metallurgists, approaches the text less in terms of philology than as one who shares Theophilus's own technical concerns."[11]

Following a student sit-in in 1969, Hawthorne called the Chicago Tribune to laud the university's "pioneering" approach.[12] As he said, "[t]he sit-in at Chicago is now over, without bloodshed, beatings, or other violent acts ... Where other colleges here and abroad have called in the police, the national guard, the military, this university, dedicated as it is to the solution of problems by intellectual, reasoning, and patient 'confrontation' of human minds has arrived at a decent, fair, and honorable solution of this crisis."[12]

Personal life

Hawthorne became a United States citizen in 1952.[3] He was the husband of Dolores Hawthorne (née Bandini),[2][13][14] a Stanford-educated physicist;[13] she was a post-doctoral research fellow of Edward Teller and had been invited by J. Robert Oppenheimer to work at Los Alamos National Laboratory while the Manhattan Project was underway, but left academia after giving birth.[15] The couple married on 7 July 1948 in Florence,[13] and had two children, John Elliott and Margaret Deirdre "Nini" Hawthorne.[2][16] He died on 8 March 1977 at the age of 61.[2][3][17] His son, a Duke University forestry graduate, died the following year in a climbing accident in Oregon.[18][19][20]

Publications

Among Hawthorne's publications were many on ancient Greek literature and translations.[2] He also edited two documentaries about Greek archaeological excavations.[2]

  • Smith, Cyril Stanley & Hawthorne, John G. (1974). "Mappae Clavicula: A Little Key to the World of Medieval Techniques". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. American Philosophical Society. 64 (4): 1–128. JSTOR 1006317.
  • Hawthorne, John G. & Smith, Cyril Stanley (1979). Theophilus: On Divers Arts (2nd ed.). New York: Dover. ISBN 0-486-23784-2.

References

  1. ↑ "John Greenfield Hawthorne in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936–2007". Ancestry Library. Missing or empty |url= (help)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "U. of C.'s Hawthorne Dies". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. 12 March 1977. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. 1 2 3 "Funeral for Professor". Mt. Vernon Register-News. Mount Verson, Illinois. 12 March 1977. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ Schlafly, Ellen (12 February 1968). "Latin is Alive, Even 'Juicy', they Say". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. St. Louis, Missouri. p. 4D – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Set Lectures in Europe for 3 from U. of C." Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. 28 July 1957. p. 3-1 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "Greek Find Bares Ancient Cult: U of C Reports on Expedition". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. 30 October 1958. p. 3-1 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Noted Lecturer at C. R. Library". The Coe Cosmos. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 5 October 1961. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ Weller, George (9 October 1963). "Ruins in Aegean Sea Studied". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. p. 27 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "University Calendar". Iowa City Press-Citizen. Iowa City, Iowa. 4 October 1961. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ White Jr. 1964, pp. 225, 232.
  11. ↑ White Jr. 1964, p. 225.
  12. 1 2 "U. C. Prof Hails 'Pioneering' in Sit-In Policy". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. 15 February 1969. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. 1 2 3 "Last Grads Will Note 10th Year Since School Closed". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. 16 May 1948. p. IV-15 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ "Harthornes Visiting". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. 16 August 1952. p. I-9 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ↑ "Dolores B. Hawthorne, 84". Obituaries. Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. 20 November 2002. p. 1-9 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ↑ "Hawthorne, Dolores". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. 20 November 2002. p. 2-14 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ↑ "John G. Hawthorne". The Sheboygan Press. Sheboygan, Wisconsin. 12 March 1977. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ↑ "Chicago Man is Found Dead at the Base of 100-Foot Cliff". The Oregon Statesman. Salem, Oregon. 22 December 1978. p. 10C – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ↑ "Hawthorne". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. 1 January 1979. p. 3-7 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ↑ "Chicago man found dead in falls area". The Oregonian Newspaper. 22 December 1978.

Bibliography

  • White Jr., Lynn Townsend (Spring 1964). "Theophilus Redivivus". Technology and Culture. The Johns Hopkins University Press. V (2): 224–233. JSTOR 3101163.
    • Republished as White Jr., Lynn Townsend (1978). "Theophilus Redivivus". Medieval Religion and Technology: Collected Essays. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 93–103. ISBN 0-520-03566-6.


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