Bluma L. Trell
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| Born | Bluma Lee Popkin (1903-03-10)March 10, 1903
New York, NY
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| Died | June 10, 1997(1997-06-10) (aged 94)
Englewood, NJ
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| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Classicist, archaeologist, numismatist, professor, attorney |
| Notable work | Temple of Artemis replica on permanent display at the British Museum |
| Spouse | Max Trell |
Bluma Lee Popkin Trell was an American classicist, archaeologist, and numismatist. She earned a law degree from New York University at age 21 and had a private law practice for several years before becoming bored and returning to her studies. She was later a professor of Classics at New York University, and a recognized expert on the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus. Her reconstruction of the temple was on display at the British Museum and was used as a model in a painting by Salvador Dali.[1] At NYU the Bluma L. Trell Prize is awarded each year to a graduating senior who has made notable contributions in the field of Classics.[2]
In 1973 Trell participated in a protest against the Metropolitan Museum's attempt to sell 6,000 ancient coins that it had lent the American Numismatic Society. A photograph of Trell playing the cello with the NYU Student Orchestra at the Society during the protest appeared in the New York Times and the New York Post which generated a lot of publicity and likely contributed to the success of the protest.[1]
In 1977, Trell published Coins and Their Cities: Architecture on the Ancient Coins of Greece, Rome and Palestine, along with renowned British Museum authority Martin Price.[3]
Bluma Lee Popkin was born in 1903 to Max Popkin, a portrait painter who helped establish the Grand Central Art Galleries, and Mary Samuels Popkin.[1]
In 1924 she married screenwriter Max Trell and they had one son named Max Trell Jr.[4]
Trell earned her degrees from New York University: LL.B. in 1924, B.A. in 1935, and Ph.D. in 1942.[1] Trell completed her dissertation, "Architectura Numismatica Part II, Temples in Asia Minor" in 1942, with Karl Lehmann-Hartleben as her advisor.[8]
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