Erich Gruen

Erich Gruen obtained a BA at Columbia University, a BA with First Class Honours in Literae Humaniores as a Rhodes Scholar at Merton, and a PhD at Harvard. He taught for more than 40 years until his retirement in 2007 in the History and Classics Departments at the University of California, Berkeley, where he held the Gladys Rehard Wood endowed chair in Classics and History.

He has taught also as a Visiting Professor at Princeton, Cornell, the University of Minnesota, the University of Colorado, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Getty Villa.

He is the author or editor of 14 books. 130 articles, and 110 reviews on Greek history, Roman history, and Jewish history of the Greco-Roman period.

He is the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Austrian Cross of Honor for Arts and Letters.

He has served on the dissertation committees of 104 PhD students.