Herbert Bloch

Herbert Bloch is a native of Germany. He studied Ancient History, Classical Philology and Archaeology at the University of Berlin and at the University of Rome, where he received his Dr. degree in Roman History in 1935 and the Diploma di perfezionamento in 1937. He was awarded a L.L.D. by the University of Cassino in 1989. He was a member of the staff of the excavations in Ostia in 1938 and emigrated to the United States in 1939. He taught at Harvard University from 1941 to 1982. His teaching and research interests have involved Greek and Roman historiography, Latin epigraphy, Roman archaeology (especially architecture), and Medieval Latin literature.

His publications include I bolli laterizi e la storia edilizia romana. Contributi all'archeologia e alla storia romana (1936-38), printed as a book in 1948, 2nd ed. 1968; Supplement to Vol. XV,1 of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, Including Complete Indices to the Roman Brick-stamps (1948; 2nd ed. 1967); ed. Felix Jacoby, Abhandlungen zur griechischen Geschichtsschreibung (1956); "Der Autor der Graphia aureae urbis Romae," Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters, 40 (1984), pp. 55-175 (slightly enlarged to be published as a book by the Monumenta Germaniae Historica); Monte Cassino in the Middle Ages, 3 vols. (1986) (awarded the Praemium Urbis in Rome 1987 and the Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy 1988); The Atina Dossier of Peter the Deacon of Monte Cassino. A Hagiographical Romance of the Twelfth Century published in the series Studi e Testi 346 (1998).

He has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1953/4), Professor in Charge of the School of Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome (1957-59), Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows (1964-79), Trustee of the Loeb Classical Library (1964-73). He served as President of the American Philological Association (1968/9) and as President of Fellows of the Medieval Academy (1990-93). He is a member of the American of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia (since 1990 Hon. Mem.), The German Archaeological Institute, the Zentraldirektion of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. He was awarded the Premio "Cultori di Roma" 1999.