Professor Grafton was for a time my thesis adviser some 30 years ago, generously accepting this role though I was a doctoral student in history at another university (University of Chicago); thus we shared two almae matres, the other being University College London. As daunting as was his intellectual breadth, so disarming and kind was his common touch, empathy, and magnanimity. Anyone who studied with him must have been quickly amazed at how similar in ways he was to the pioneering, polyglot antiquarians he studied.
Professor Grafton was for a time my thesis adviser some 30 years ago, generously accepting this role though I was a doctoral student in history at another university (University of Chicago); thus we shared two almae matres, the other being University College London. As daunting as was his intellectual breadth, so disarming and kind was his common touch, empathy, and magnanimity. Anyone who studied with him must have been quickly amazed at how similar in ways he was to the pioneering, polyglot antiquarians he studied.