Truesdell Sparhawk Brown was a classical scholar, ancient historian, and co-founder of the journal California Studies in Classical Antiquity, which became the journal Classical Antiquity.
Education
Brown attended Haverford College in 1922–1923 and then transferred to Harvard University, where he received his A.B in 1928 and his Master of Arts He was an instructor in ancient history at the University of Colorado from 1929 to 1932 and from 1933 to 1937 with an interruption for the academic year 1932–1933 when he studied under C. F. Lehmann-Haupt at the University of Innsbruck.
Career
In 1929. Brown was an instructor and then assistant professor at the University of Texas, Austin during the years 1940–1947 with a 2-year interruption in 1942–1944 when he was an instructor at the United States Naval Flight Preparatory School in Austin. In 1947 he received a Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia University under William Linn Westermann (1873–1954) with a thesis on Onesicritus. Brown was employed for the remainder of his career at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was a lecturer in 1947–1948, assistant professor in 1948–1951, associate professor in 1951–1956, and professor in 1956–1973, retiring as professor emeritus in 1973.
He was the chair of the University of California, Los Angeles history department in 1959–1962.
He was a Fulbright Fellow in 1950 in Greece and a Guggenheim Fellow in the academic year 1954–1955 in England. In 1980 colleagues and former students published a festschrift in his honor.