The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 41, October 10, 2004, Article 3

MICHAEL GRANT OBITUARY

  [An obituary of prolific numismatic author Michael Grant
  was just published October 8, 2004.   Here are some
  excerpts. -Editor]

  "Professor Michael Grant, who died on Monday aged 89,
  was a don at Cambridge, Professor of Humanity (Latin) at
  Edinburgh, and vice-chancellor at the Universities of
  Khartoum and Queen's, Belfast, but was best known as a
  prolific populariser of ancient history who published nearly
  50 books on the Greeks, Romans and early Christianity."

  "As well as scholarly publications on the coinage of Rome
  (he was a distinguished numismatist), he produced biographies
  of Julius Caesar, Nero, Herod, Cleopatra, Jesus, St Peter
  and St Paul; accounts of the literature, history, art, mythology
  and social life of Greece and Rome; and found time to
  examine the Middle Ages and ancient Israel."

  "Michael Grant was born in London on November 21 1914,
  the only son of Colonel Maurice Grant, who had served in
  the Boer War and later wrote part of its official history, before
  covering the Balkan Wars for the Daily Mail and rising to
  become an obituarist - though he was sacked for failing to get
  up in the night to update Kitchener's obituary in 1916. His
  mother Muriel was of Danish stock, and descended from
  Jorgen Jorgensen, who staged an unsuccessful coup in
  Iceland in 1809."

  "He received many academic awards and prizes from
  numismatic societies. His Who's Who in Classical Mythology
  (with John Hazel, 1973) won the Prima Latina. His most
  recent book was Sick Caesars (2000). He was president of
  the Virgil Society (1963-66) and of the Classical Association
  (1978-9). His club was the Athenaeum. He received the OBE
  in 1946 and was advanced to CBE in 1958."

  To read the full obituary, see: Full Stroy

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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