Professor Walter Burkert FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1975
Year of birth
1931
Year of death
2015
Honours
FBA

Current post

Professor Emeritus of Classics, University of Zürich

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Robin Osborne FBA

Classics and Ancient History History Art and Archaeology of Greece and the Greek World History of Greece and the Greek World Southern Europe Greece

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Professor Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer FBA

Greco-Roman literature, culture and philosophy; the reception of the Western classics, especially in China; translations of Seneca and Vergil; the symbiotic relationship of humanities and science, historically and at present.

Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer FBA

Professor Chris Carey FBA

Early Greek poetry, Greek drama, oratory & historiography of the classical period, ancient Greek law.

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