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John Boardman
British classical archaeologist (1927-2024) · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Died at 96
Sir John Boardman, was a British classical archaeologist and art historian of ancient Greek art.
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Educated at Chigwell School in Essex and at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Boardman worked as assistant director of the British School at Athens between 1952 and 1955 before taking up a position as an assistant keeper at the Ashmolean Museum, part of the University of Oxford. He succeeded John Beazley as Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the university in 1978, remaining in post until his retirement in 1994.
