George Ewart Bean
George Ewart Bean ( * 1903, † December 7, 1977 ) was an English classical scholar and epigraphists.
Life and work
Bean was the son of the botanist William Jackson Bean. He attended St Paul 's School in London and then studied Classical Studies at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1923. Immediately afterward entrusted to him at St Paul's as a lecturer; Focus of this was ancient Greece.
As a recognized expert of this area, he organized as part of a summer academy of the University several times traveling in the Aegean Region of Turkey. In 1943 he went for the British Council as a lecturer in English language to Izmir. In parallel to this work, Bean began at this time with little field research in this area. Since 1946 he taught Classics and Ancient History at the University of Istanbul, in 1971 he retired.
Between 1943 and 1971, traveled Bean - alone and with colleagues - again and again the various parts of Turkey. The collaboration with his friend and colleague, the epigraphists Terence Mitford (1905-1978) was manifested in the book Journeys into rough Cilicia.
The publisher Ernest Benn became aware of Bean Through its expertise and persuaded him to a series of " archaeological leaders ". The resulting four volumes are considered to be the magnum opus beans. In addition to numerous other writings and contributions, he wrote a considerable part of the article about Set in present-day Turkey classical sites of antiquity in by Richard Stillwell et al. published by Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites.
Bean was highly regarded as an expert in the ancient Turkey from colleagues and his students. He was athletic and played passionate badminton and tennis. In his youth he even made it to the Wimbledon Championships.
Bean has been married twice: His first marriage lasted six years and ended in divorce. His second wife he met in the teaching profession in Turkey and married her in Istanbul.
Writings (selection )
- William Moir Calder: A classical map of Asia Minor. Being a partial revision of ... JGC Anderson's Map of Asia Minor. British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, London 1958.
- By Peter Marshall Fraser: The Rhodian Peraea and islands. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1954.
- Side kitabeleri = The inscriptions of Side. Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, Ankara 1965.
- Terence B. Mitford: Journeys in Rough Cilicia in 1962 and 1963 ( = memoranda of the Austrian Academy of Sciences of Humanities Class Vol 85. ) Böhlau, Graz, Vienna, Cologne 1965..
- Journeys in Northern Lycia 1965-1967. ( = Memoranda of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical- historical class Vol. 104) Böhlau, Graz, Vienna, Cologne 1971.
- Aegean Turkey.
- Turkey 's Southern Shore.
- Lycean Turkey.