Michael Metcalf
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| Born | 8 May 1933 |
| Died | 25 October 2018 (2018-10-26) (aged 85) |
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| Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
David Michael Metcalf (8 May 1933 – 25 October 2018) was a British academic and numismatist. He was the director of the Heberden Coin Room of the Ashmolean Museum, a fellow of Wolfson College and Professor of Numismatics at the University of Oxford. He held the degrees of MA, DPhil and DLitt from Oxford.[1]
Metcalf was born on 8 May 1933 in Newcastle, England. He studied geography at St John's College, Cambridge followed by a doctorate on medieval coinage in the Balkans.[2]
Metcalf's primary focus was on the early and high Middle Ages, Byzantine Empire, the Crusader states and the Balkans. He worked at the Heberden Coin Room of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford from 1971 to 1999 and was the director of the Heberden Coin Room from 1982 to 1999.[3] He was appointed as Professor of Numismatics at the University of Oxford in 1996 and retired in 1998;[1] he was also a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, from 1982 to 1998.[4]
He served as president of the Royal Numismatic Society from 1994 to 1999 and led the editorial board of its journal The Numismatic Chronicle from 1974 to 1984.[5][6]
In 1962, Metcalf married Dorothy Uren, a teacher, who died in 2018. They had three children.[2]
He died on 25 October 2018 at the age of 85.[7]
1998 D M Metcalf, MA DPhil DLitt Oxf, Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson Professor of Numismatics 1996-8
D.M. Metcalf Assistant Keeper Byzantine & Early Medieval 1971-87, Senior Assistant Keeper 1981, Keeper 1982-99
D. Michael Metcalf (1994-1999)
The next editor, D . M. Metcalf, devoted himself to the editorial task from 1974 to 1984
1983 D M Metcalf
1987 D. Michael Metcalf
1991 D. M. Metcalf
2008 Prof. Michael Metcalf
2008 (numismatics) Professor Michael Metcalf, Emeritus Professor of Numismatics, University of Oxford
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