Jocelyn Toynbee

Jocelyn Mary Catherine Toynbee ( born March 3, 1897 in Paddington, London, † 31 December 1985, Oxford) was a British Classical Archaeologist.

Toynbee was the daughter of Harry Valpy Toynbee and Sarah Edith Toynbee. Her older brother was the historian and philosopher of history Arnold Joseph Toynbee. They first visited the Winchester High School for Girls, then as her mother's Newnham College, Cambridge, where she made ​​her Master of Arts in Classical tripos honors in 1919. From 1920 to 1921 she taught at the Ladies' College, Cheltenham, from 1921 to 1924 at the St. Hugh 's College, Oxford, which she left in protest against the sacking of Italian historian Cecilia Ady in the context of mass redundancies. As a result, she was a lecturer in Classical Studies at the University of Reading, until she returned in 1927 as a member of Newnham College, Cambridge. 1930 was awarded a doctorate from Oxford University, in 1931, she held next to her position at Newnham College nor the position of Lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Cambridge. This position she retained until her appointment to the Laurence - Chair of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge in 1951. 1962 she became Professor Emeritus and Honorary Member of Newnham College. This was followed by twenty more years of intensive Forschens and publishing and organizing exhibitions.

Jocelyn Toynbee was a Classical archaeologist one of the few scholars of their time in a largely male-dominated domain. Soon she came into close relationship with Eugénie Sellers Strong, the former Grand Dame of Roman archeology and learned society during their Romreisen. Encouraged by this contact and following their passion, she dedicated her research mainly Roman subjects of the Imperial period to Late Antiquity, a largely neglected by the British Archaeology and independent as territory of artistic creation is not quite acknowledged area of ancient art history. Nevertheless, they represented traditional approaches and looked in Roman art from the 3rd century and the Art of Late Antiquity, the simple continuation of imperial design will. In this she was in marked contrast to Alois Riegl and Franz Wickhoff who had just worked out that behind all acting very different Kunstwollen this time.

Important and groundbreaking was her work in the field of numismatics. Coin designs put it, unlike their colleagues in the field, in relation to other art of the time, to wall painting and sculpture, gems and mosaics and metalwork. For her work in this area in 1948, she received the Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society, 1956, Archer M. Huntington Medal. A particular area of their work presented Britain under Roman rule dar. She regularly read on the subject, two of her monographs were devoted in addition to numerous articles this issue.

Toynbee was Vice -President of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies in 1946, chairman of the range Archaeology, History and Letters of the British School at Rome from 1954 to 1958. You was a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London since 1943, member of the British Academy since 1952. She received an honorary doctorate from the University of Newcastle in 1967 and the University of Liverpool in 1968.

Publications (selection )

  • The Hadrianic School: A Chapter in the History of Greek Aart. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1934.
  • Roman medallions. The American Numismatic Society, New York, 1944.
  • Some Notes on Artists in the Roman World. Latomus, Brussels 1951.
  • With John Bryan Ward - Perkins: The Shrine of St Peter and the Vatican Excavations. Longmans / Green, London 1956.
  • The Flavian reliefs from the Palazzo delle Cancellaria in Rome. 39 Charlton Lectures on Art Oxford University Press, London 1957.
  • Art in Roman Britain. Phaidon Press, London 1963.
  • Art in Britain under the Romans. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1964.
  • The Art of the Romans. Thames & Hudson, London 1965.
  • Death and Burial in the Roman World. London 1971, ISBN 0-500-40015-6.
  • Animals in Roman Life and Art Thames & Hudson, London 1973, ISBN 0-500-40024-5.
  • Roman Historical Portraits. Thames and Hudson, London 1978, ISBN 0-500-23277-6.
  • Animal world of antiquity. of Saverne, Mainz 1983 ( cultural history of the ancient world. band 17), ISBN 3-8053-0481-1.
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