Blanche Beatrice Boyer
American classical philologist
About Blanche Beatrice Boyer
Lived 1896 – 1984 (aged 87). Blanche Beatrice Boyer was an American university teacher, classical philologist and hellenist.
Blanche Beatrice Boyer (February 22, 1896 – January 12, 1984) was an American classical philologist who was a leading authority in the history of insular script, a medieval script system of Irish origin.
Biography Blanche Beatrice Boyer, daughter of Edward Errett Boyer and Edna Narcissa Beck, was born on February 22, 1896, in Brocton, Illinois. She studied at the University of Chicago where she got her Bachelor of Arts in 1920, her Master of Arts in 1921, and her Doctor of Philosophy in 1925. She received an American Council of Learned Societies grant in 1933.
Boyer died on January 12, 1984, in Chicago, Illinois.
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