Henry S. Robinson (June 6, 1914 - July 4, 2003 in Eastport, Maine) was an American

Classical archaeologist Classical archaeology is the archaeological investigation of the Mediterranean civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Nineteenth-century archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann were drawn to study the societies they had read about i ...

. From 1959 until 1969 he was the Director of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and leader of the Corinth Excavations from 1959 to 1965. He was the Harold North Fowler Professor of Classical Studies at

Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio. Case Western Reserve was established in 1967, when Western Reserve University, founded in 1826 and named for its location in the Connecticut Western Reser ...

in Cleveland. He was married to the Classical Archaeologist Rebecca C. Robinson (1924-2009). In recognition of his extraordinary service to the American School, the Henry S. Robinson Fellowship was set up in 2009 to encourage and facilitate research at Corinth.

Notable publications

* ''Pottery of the Roman Period, Chronology'' . The Athenian agora. Results of excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens V. Princeton, NJ 195

* ''Corinth: A Brief History of the City and a Guide to the Excavations'' Athens. January 1, 1964

References

1914 births 2003 deaths 20th-century American archaeologists {{US-archaeologist-stub