Broneer, Oscar, 1894-1992

found: LC data base, 7-21-87(hdg.: Broneer, Oscar Theodore, 1894- ; usage: Oscar Broneer)

found: SSDI, Nov. 4, 2008(Broneer, Oscar T.; b. Dec. 28, 1894; d. Feb. 22, 1992)

found: The south Stoa and its Roman successors, 1954:title page (by Oscar Broneer)

found: Wikipedia, 14 March 2017(Oscar Broneer; Oscar Theodore Broneer (December 28, 1894-February 22, 1992) was a prominent Swedish American educator and archaeologist known in particular for his work on Ancient Greece; he is most associated with his discovery of the Temple of Isthmia, an important Panhellenic shrine dating from the seventh century B.C.; Broneer was born in the parish of Bäckebo in Kalmar, Sweden; he left Sweden in 1913 for the United States; he first studied at Augustana College and then attended the University of California, Berkeley where it took Broneer only two years to earn both an M.A. and Ph. D.; Broneer was professor of archeology, classical languages and literature at the University of Chicago from 1949 until his retirement in 1960; he also served as director of the university excavations at Isthmia; he also held visiting professorships at the University of California at Los Angeles and Stanford University; he taught at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and worked for years at the Corinth Excavations; while working at Corinth he also developed the first systematic typology of ancient terracotta lamps; in 1952, Broneer famously discovered the temple of Poseidon at Isthmia on the very first day of the excavation; Broneer became the field director at Isthmia in 1952 and remained in charge until 1967; he died in Corinth, Greece and was buried in Hagia Anna cemetery)