Loading AI tools
American classical scholar (1933–2024) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Walter Ralph Johnson (July 9, 1933 – April 13, 2024), commonly known as W. Ralph Johnson and published as W. R. Johnson, was an American classicist. He was the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Chicago from 1989 to 1998.
W. R. Johnson | |
---|---|
Born | Trinidad, Colorado, United States | July 9, 1933
Died | April 13, 2024 90) | (aged
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classical studies |
Sub-discipline | Latin poetry |
Institutions | |
Notable works | Darkness Visible: A Study of Vergil's Aeneid (1976) |
Born in Trinidad, Colorado, on July 9, 1933, Johnson studied at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating BA in 1961 and MA in 1963 before completing his PhD there in 1967. He taught at Berkeley from 1966 to 1974, then Cornell University until 1981. He was then professor of classical languages and literatures at the University of Chicago from 1981 to 1988;[1] in 1989, he became the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor at Chicago.[2] He retired in 1998, remaining an emeritus professor at Chicago until his death on April 13, 2024.[1]