Herbert Bloch

Herbert Bloch ( born August 18, 1911 in Berlin, † September 6, 2006 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a professor of Classics at Harvard University and a specialist in Greek historiography, Roman epigraphy, medieval monasticism and the tradition of classical culture and literature.

Life

Herbert Bloch was a German-born Jew and studied Ancient History, Classical Philology and Classical Archaeology in Berlin and Rome, where he became in 1935 a doctorate in Roman history and in 1937 the Diploma di perfezionamento received. In 1938 he was a member of the excavation team in Ostia. Because of the anti -Semitic laws in Italy, he emigrated to the USA in 1939. Bloch's brother, who remained in Germany, died in the Holocaust. Bloch taught at Harvard 1941 until 1982.

Bloch was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (New Jersey) (1953 /54), professor of the School of Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome ( 1957-59 ), Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows in the period from 1964 to 1979 trustee of the Loeb Classical Library ( 1964-73 ). He has served as president of the American Philological Association (1968 /69) as well as President of the Fellows of the Medieval Academy from 1990 to 1993. Bloch was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and Honorary Member since 1990 of the Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeological Museum and the German Archaeological Institute, Central Directorate of the Monumenta Historica Germaniae. He received the 1999 Cultori di Roma Prize.

Publications

• I bolli Laterizi e la storia romana edilizia. Contributi all'archeologia e storia alla romana ( 1936-38 ), published in 1948 as a book, 2nd edition 1968
• Supplement to Vol XV, one of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, Including Complete Indices to the Roman brick- stamps (1948, 2nd edition 1967); ed Felix Jacoby, Essays on Greek historiography (1956 )
• " The author of the Graphia aureae urbis Romae, " German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages, 40 ( 1984) (planned slightly expanded new edition in the Monumenta Historica Germaniae ), pp. 55-175
• Monte Cassino in the Middle Ages, 3 vols ( 1986) ( awarded the Praemium Urbis Prize in Rome in 1987 and the Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy 1988)
• The Atina Dossier of Peter the Deacon of Monte Cassino. A Romance of the Twelfth Century hagiographical. In: Studi e Testi 346 (1998).