George Beardoe Grundy

George Beardoe Grundy (10 January 1861, Wallasey – 6 December 1948, Oxford) was an English historian, specializing in the military history of ancient Greece and Rome.

Grundy was educated at Risley School and then at Lichfield Grammar School. He began teaching at age 16. At age 27 he matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford, and received in 1892 the title of "Geographical Student of the University of Oxford", becoming a lecturer on ancient geography. He was from 1897 to 1903 a lecturer for professor of ancient history at Oxford, from 1903 to 1931 a fellow and tutor of ancient history at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and from 1904 to 1917 a tutor in ancient history at Brasenose College, Oxford. He was in 1899 proxime accessit for the Arnold Historical Essay with a paper on Roman Dacia and in 1900 received the Conington Prize.

Grundy's work helped to import late-19th century Prussian military studies of Greek phalanx warfare into Anglophone scholarship. However, "Grundy doesn't appear in citations nearly as much as his influence would imply; one is left to assume it is in part because he was a giant racist and no one is quite comfortable admitting that they are still using...his racism as the foundation for their assumptions."

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