John Chadwick (21 May 1920 – 24 November 1998) was an English linguist and classical scholar most famous for his role in deciphering Linear B, along with Michael Ventris.
He was born in East Sheen, Richmond-upon-Thames, and educated at St Paul's School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and he served as an officer the Royal Navy's Special Branch during the Second World War.
After the war he was on the staff of the Oxford Classical Dictionary before beginning a Classics lectureship at Cambridge in 1952. That year he began working with Ventris on the progressive decipherment of Linear B, the two writing Documents in Mycenean Greek in 1956 following a controversial first paper three years earlier. Chadwick's philological ideas were applied to Ventris' initial theory that Linear B was an early form of Greek rather than another Mediterranean language.
After Ventris' death Chadwick became the figurehead of the Linear B work, writing the accessible popular book The Decipherment of Linear B in 1958 and revising Documents in Mycenean Greek in 1978.
He retired in 1984, by which time he had become the fourth (and last) Perceval Maitland Laurence Reader in Classics at Cambridge. He continued his scholarship until his death, being an active member of several international societies and writing numerous popular and academic articles.
He married Joan Hill in 1947 and they had one son.
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Linear B Inscriptions, Inscriptions, Linear B., Greek language, Inscriptions, Mycenaean Civilization, Dictionaries, Inscriptions, Linear B, Language, Archaeology, Civilization, Mycenaean, Civilization, mycenaean, English, Glossaries, History, Inscriptions, linear b, Latin language, Linear B., Ancient (Classical) Greek, Ancient - General, Ancient Greece, Ancient Languages - Classical Greek, Archaeology / Anthropology, Civilisation mycénienne, Civilization, Classical Greek & Roman archaeologyID Numbers
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