Gotthard Karl Galinsky *66

Karl died of cancer March 9, 2024, in Austin, Texas, at age 82.

He was born Feb. 7, 1942, in Strasbourg in what is now France, and grew up as the son of a professor in postwar Germany. Karl received a scholarship to Bowdoin, where he earned his A.B. in 1963. He completed a Ph.D. in classics at Princeton in 1966, and soon afterward began teaching at the University of Texas.

He taught at UT for more than 50 years and was chairman of the classics department from 1974 to 1990. His awards for teaching and scholarship included the Max Planck International Research Prize. He was a visiting professor at Tulane, the University of La Plata in Argentina, and the universities of Mainz and Bochum in Germany.

Karl wrote several books, including Augustan Culture and Augustus: Introduction to the Life of an Emperor. He also edited several books, including Cultural Memories in the Roman Empire and Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity. He had several stints of living in Rome, and he lived in Germany for half the year between 2009 and 2013.

He is survived by sons Bob and John; three grandchildren; and siblings Teresa and Christoph.

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