Background
David Frederick Grose was born in the small farming town of Kenyon, Minnesota.
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Education
After completing his Fulbright fellowship, Grose attended Harvard University, as a graduate student in the Department of History. He wrote his doctoral thesis on the administration of the city of Rome under the Roman Republic. His advisor was Professor Mason Hammond.
Grose wrote a considerable portion of his thesis while at the American Academy in Rome in Rome, Italy.
Grose received his doctoral degree from Harvard in 1975. Thereafter, he spent one year at the Museum of Art and Archeology at the University of Missouri, in Columbia, Missouri.
While at Missouri, he was strongly influenced by archeologist Gladys Davidson Weinberg (1909 – 2002) to consider the study of ancient glass. Therefore, he spent another year at the Toledo Museum of Glass in Toledo, Ohio.
Career
He was an authority on the classification of early ancient glass from the Roman period. He was the second child of Frederick and Marie Grose. When he was age 6 years, his family moved to Austin, Minnesota.
While at Saint Olaf College, Grose went on his first excavation to Native American sites in South Dakota.
Subsequently, he accepted a faculty position at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He continued to pursue his interest in Roman glass and spent many summers at the American Academy of Rome.
In 1989, he published his authoritative textbook Early Ancient Glass. This book was quickly accepted as a definitive description of glass production during ancient Rome.
Later, Grose was chosen to be Chairman of the Department of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
He also was a consultant to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and the British Museum in London. David Grose died in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Grose Memorial The Grose Memorial Fund in Classics was established by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Classics during the 2003-2004 academic year in order to provide support for our undergraduate students and the programs and scholarships that benefit them.
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