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Died November 3, 1990, Ankara, Turkey Books Aphrodisias, city of Venus Aphrodite Education Princeton University (1958), New York University (1953) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Similar People Joyce Reynolds, John the Apostle, John the Evangelist | ||
Kenan Tevfik Erim (February 13, 1929 İstanbul - November 3, 1990 Ankara) was a Turkish archaeologist who excavated from 1961 until his death at the site of Aphrodisias in Turkey.
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Life
His father, Tevfik Erim, was a diplomat who was a member of the Political Section of the Secretariat of the League of Nations in the 1930s (attending as such the Évian Conference) and of the Turkish delegation to the United Nations in the 1950s. So, although of Turkish birth, Kenan Erim was raised and educated in Geneva, Switzerland, and undertook university studies in the United States. He took his first degree in Classical archaeology at New York University (NYU) in 1953, and his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1958. In 1957 he lectured at Indiana University, and from 1958 on he was employed by NYU, where he became full professor in 1971. NYU still supervises the excavations at Aphrodisias to this day. There is a charming memorial to Professor Erim near the magnificently restored main gate.
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