William Charles Bryce , Eng. William Charles Brice ( July 3, 1921 , Richmond , Yorkshire — July 24, 2007 ) is a British ethnographer and linguist .
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Biography
He studied geography at Jesus College, Oxford University . He was forced to interrupt his studies during the Second World War, when he did military service in India, where he guarded the railways near Madras and made military maps, for which he was awarded the Burmese star ( en: Burma Star ).
After the war, he participated in an archaeological expedition in eastern Turkey, where he explored the border fortifications of the Roman Empire. In 1947 he received the position of geography teacher at the University of Manchester . In 1951, he returned to Oxford as an ethnology teacher and assistant curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum .
Archaeologist John Myers commissioned him to work with inscriptions Linear A letter . The research results were published in a book in 1961 [2] .
In 1967 he was appointed editor of the Kadmos magazine, which was devoted to the study of Mediterranean languages and cultures of the Bronze Age.
Among his other works, the “Historical Atlas of Islam” [3] and the “Atlas of the Mediterranean Sea”, a translation of the 16th century Arabic manuscript [4], became famous.
Notes
- ↑ LIBRIS - 2011.
- ↑ Brice, WC (1961) Inscriptions in the Minoan Linear Script of Class A
- Histor An Historical Atlas of Islam . - 1981.
- ↑ Professor William Brice, ethnographer and linguist . The Times (September 20, 2007). The appeal date is September 17, 2008.