Henry Rudolph Immerwahr

Henry Rudolph Immerwahr (February 28, 1916 – September 15, 2013) was a German-born American Classicist known for his work on Attic scripts, and Greek epigraphy.

Life Immerwahr was born on February 28, 1916 in Breslau, German Empire (now Wrocław, Poland). The eldest son of Kurt Immerwahr and Johanna Freund Immerwahr, he was educated at the University of Florence (1934-1938). Immerwahr then emigrated to the United States, earned a Ph.D. at Yale University in 1942 and then performed military service for three years during World War II. Immerwahr served as Professor of Greek in the Department of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1957 until his retirement in 1977, at which point he became Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, serving in that capacity until 1982.

Immerwahr received a Guggenheim fellowship to study at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in 1946.

Scholarship 1966. Form and thought in Herodotus. Cleveland, Published for the American Philological Association [Chapel Hill, N.C.] by the Press of Western Reserve University. 1990. Attic Script: a Survey. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2009. Corpus of Attic vase inscriptions. 2nd ed.

Necrology Stadter, Philip A. "HENRY R. IMMERWAHR†" Gnomon 86. Bd., H. 2 (2014), p. 191 (1 page)