Robert Manuel Cook | |
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Born | Sheffield, England | 4 July 1909
Died | 10 August 2000 Cambridge, England | (aged 91)
Spouse |
Kathleen Porter
(m. 1938; died 1979) |
Relatives | John Manuel Cook (brother) |
Academic background | |
Education | |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classical studies |
Institutions |
Robert Manuel Cook FBA (4 July 1909 – 10 August 2000) was a classical scholar and classical archaeologist from England with expertise in Greek painted vases. He was Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, the author of several academic texts and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1974, having been made a Fellow of the German Archaeological Institute in 1953.[1]