Newark, New Jersey
Newark ( , ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County and the second largest city within the New York metropolitan area.New York, New York) was an American classical archaeologist.
He was educated at
Princeton University
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(A.B. 1926) and the
University of Pennsylvania
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where he received his doctorate in 1931. He taught at the
University of Pittsburgh
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and then joined the faculty of
New York University
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In 1832, th ...
. He was the chairman of classics at the time of his death from an apparent heart attack.
He was involved in archaeological fieldwork at the site of
Dura Europos
Dura-Europos, ; la, Dūra Eurōpus, ( el, Δούρα Ευρωπός, Doúra Evropós, ) was a Hellenistic, Parthian, and Roman border city built on an escarpment above the southwestern bank of the Euphrates river. It is located near the vil ...
in Syria. Later he became involved in the excavations at the site of
Minturnae
Minturno is a city and ''comune'' in the southern Lazio, Italy, situated on the north west bank of the Garigliano (known in antiquity as the Liris), with a suburb on the opposite bank about from its mouth, at the point where the Via Appia cross ...
in Italy, under the auspices of the
University of Pennsylvania
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Aphrodisias
Aphrodisias (; grc, Ἀφροδισιάς, Aphrodisiás) was a small ancient Greek Hellenistic city in the historic Caria cultural region of western Anatolia, Turkey. It is located near the modern village of Geyre, about east/inland from the ...
in the early 1960s.
In 1961 he became president of the Archaeological Institute of America where he served until 1964. Johnson was also the first editor of the Institute's magazine
Archaeology
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.
Johnson was married to the former Sarah Jean Coates.
Works
* issertation''Dura studies'' (Roma, Tip. ditta f.lli Pallotta, 1931).
* 1935-. ''Excavations at Minturnae.'' Philadelphia: University Museum by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
* 1933. ''Excavations at Minturnae, II. Inscriptions, Part I, Republican Magistri.'' Philadelphia: University Museum by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Availabl online
References
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New York Times
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