David Diringer was a British linguist, palaeographer and writer.
10 Facts About David Diringer
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David Diringer was the author of several well-known books about writing systems.
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David Diringer stayed in Tlumacz through high school but moved to Italy to earn, in 1927, his Doctor of Literature degree from the University of Florence.
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David Diringer was appointed a professor at Florence, his first academic interest being the culture of the Etruscans.
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David Diringer did excavations in Tuscany from 1930 to 1939.
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David Diringer died in Cambridge, England, an emeritus professor at Cambridge, on 13 February 1975 and was survived by his wife Elena, and daughter Kedma.
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David Diringer was Secretary at the First International Congress of Etruscan Studies and at the first three Congresses of Colonial Studies in Italy.
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Since 1948, Dr David Diringer has been Lecturer in Semitic Epigraphy at the University of Cambridge.
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David Diringer is the author of several books, including The Early Hebrew Inscriptions [and] The Alphabet in the History of Civilization, and of more than 200 contributions to learned journals.
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Dr David Diringer is the founder and director of the Alphabet Museum at Cambridge.