Professor
Geoffrey B. Waywell
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Born | (1944-01-16)16 January 1944 |
Died | 16 February 2016(2016-02-16) (aged 72) |
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Professor of Classical Archaeology |
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Education | PhD Classics |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Thesis | Landscape Elements in Greek Relief Sculpture (1969) |
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Discipline | Classics |
Sub-discipline | Classical Archaeology, Greek and Roman Sculpture |
Institutions | British School at Athens, King's College London, Institute of Classical Studies |
Geoffrey B. Waywell FSA (16 January 1944 – 16 February 2016) was a British archaeologist who served as Professor of Classical ArchaeologyatKing's College London, Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, and a specialist in Greek and Roman sculpture.
Professor Geoffrey Waywell was educated in the University of Cambridge, where he received his PhD in 1969 for a dissertation on “Landscape Elements in Greek Relief Sculpture”. After graduating, he spent some time researching and excavating at the British School at Athens. He then returned to the UK and for 36 years taught at King's College London where he had joined the Department of Classics in 1968 as LecturerinClassical Archaeology. He was made Professor of Classical Archaeology in 1987, and acted as Head of department in 1989–1993. In 1996 he was appointed Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, and while continuing to teach at King's, stage-managed the move of the Institute and the Combined Library from Gordon SquaretoSenate House. He retired from the ICS and King's in 2004, and was elected a Fellow of King's College in that year.[1]
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