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DEWING, Henry Bronson

  • Date of Birth: March 2, 1882
  • Born City: Westminster
  • Born State/Country: CT
  • Parents: Stephen & Eva Victoria Lincoln D.
  • Date of Death: September 5, 1956
  • Death City: Washington
  • Death State/Country: DC
  • Married: Eunice Williams, 1910
  • Education:

    B.A., Berkeley, 1903; M.A., 1905; Ph.D., Yale 1908; L.H.D., Bowdoin, 1928.
  • Dissertation:

    “The Accentual Cursus in Byzantine Greek Prose, with Especial Reference to Procopius of Caesarea” (Yale, 1908).
  • Professional Experience:

    Teacher, Berkeley (CA) High School, 1904-6; instr. Greek, Yale, 1907-8; instr. classics, Princeton, 1908-10; prof. Latin & dean, Robert College (Istanbul), 1910-16;  asst. prof. Classics, Princeton 1916-18; Sec. & later Commissioner, American Red Cross Mission to Greece 1918-20; asst. prof., Princeton, 1920-2; assoc. prof. ancient langs., U. of Texas, 1922-3; Joseph E. Merrill prof. Greek, Bowdoin, 1923-8; first President of Athens College (Psychiko, Greece), 1927-31; vis. prof. ancient and modern languages, Colorado College, 1932-5; vis. prof. Latin, UNC, 1935-6; Medal of Military Merit and Cross of the Savior (Greece), 1920.
  • Publications:

    “A Dialysis of the Fifth Century A.D. in the Princeton Collection of Papyri,” TAPA 53 (1922) 113-27; “The Latin Indirect Object Governed by Verbs of Favoring, Helping, etc.,” TAPA 36 (1905) lxiii-lxiv; “Argonautic Associations of the Bosporus,” CJ 19 (1924) 469-83; Über den Gotentkrieg, History of the Wars Books VI-VII, (trans.), Loeb Classical Library (London: Heinemann 1924); Procopius V (trans.) Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press/Heinemann, Putnam 1928); The Gothic Wars, Books VII-VIII, (trans.) Loeb Classical Library (New York: Putnam, 1928); “E. Richtsteig, Bericht über die Literatur zu Prokopios von Gaza aus den Jahren 1926-1930,” JAW 238: 101; The Secret History of Procopius of Caesarea,” TAPA 62 (1931) xl-xli; Procopius VI The Anecdota or Secret History, (trans.), Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press/Heinemann, 1936); “F. E. R. A. in the Sixth Century A.D.,”CJ 32 (1936) 27-34; Procopius (trans. with G. Downey), Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press/Heinemann, 1939; repr. 1961); Procopius VII: Buildings. General Index to Procopius, (trans.) Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press/Heinemann, 1940; 2nd ed., with G. Downey, 1961); Procopius: Wars of Justinian (trans.; rev. & modernized, with an intro and notes by Anthony Kaldelis, maps & genealogies by Ian Mladjov) (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2014).