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BILLHEIMER, Albert
- Date of Birth: August 23, 1886
- Born City: Reading
- Born State/Country: PA
- Parents: Thomas Charles & Emma Catherine Ziegler
- Date of Death: December 28, 1970
- Death City: Alfred
- Death State/Country: NY
- Married: Mary Ruth Bream, 9 Sept. 1914.
- Education:
A.B. Gettysburg Coll., 1906; study at U. of Pennsylvania, 1908-9; A.M. Princeton, 1910; Ph.D. 1917.
- Dissertation:
"Naturalization in Athenian Law and Practice" (Princeton, 1917); privately printed, 1922.
- Professional Experience:
Prof. Gk. Gettysburg (PA) Acad., 1906-8; prof. Gk. Gettysburg Coll., 1912-30; asso. prof, to prof, class. NYU, 1930-51; vis. prof. Alfred (NY) U., 1961-3; gen. sec. AIA, 1930-2.
- Publications:
"Amendments in Athenian Decrees," AJA 42 (1938) 456-85; "Ta Sem &4>' tf/Sirc," TAPA 11 (1946) 214-20; "Age-Classes in Spartan Education," TAPA 78 (1947) 99-104.
- Notes:
Albert Billheimer was a teacher of Greek and an epigraphist specializing in Attic inscriptions of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. As a teacher he insisted upon absolute accuracy and precision, yet did so without pedantry. As a scholar he rigidly held to the highest standards and taught his students to do the same. He wrote few articles, but they were models of scholarship—concise, scrupulously accurate, convincingly argued.
- Sources:
NYU Archives; WhAm 7:51.
- Author: Lionel Casson