query: place_of_death ernst badian
supports: Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, established in 1636, whose history, influence, and wealth have made it one of the world's most prestigious universities. Ernst Badian ( August 8 , 1925 -- February 1 , 2011 ) was an Austrian - born classical scholar who served as a professor at Harvard University , USA , from 1971 to 1998 . Badian was one of the leading historians of Greece and Rome of the 20th century . He was born in Vienna in 1925 . In 1938 , in view of the growing persecution of Jews in Austria and Germany , he moved with his parents to New Zealand . There he attended Canterbury College , receiving a B.A. in 1945 and an M.A. the following year . He then went to University College , Oxford , studying under George Cawkwell and getting a B.A. ( First Class in Litt . Hum. ) in 1950 , an M.A. in 1954 , and D. Phil. in 1956 . In addition , he took a Litt . D. from New Zealand 's Victoria University of Wellington in 1962 . After teaching in the universities of Sheffield , Durham , and Leeds in Britain , and at the State University of New York , Buffalo , he was appointed to Harvard 's Department of History in 1971 , and was cross-appointed to the Department of the Classics in 1973 . He became John Moors Cabot Professor of History Emeritus in 1998 . Badian was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974 . An active promoter of classical studies in the United States , he helped found The American Journal of Ancient History ( 1976 ) , the Association of Ancient Historians ( 1974 ) , and the New England Ancient History Colloquium . In 1999 Austria awarded him the Cross of Honor for Science and Art ( Österreichische Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst ) . Badian died at the age of 85 after a fall in his Quincy , Massachusetts , home . He was survived by his widow Nathlie , his children Hugh and Rosemary , and several grandchildren and great - grandchildren . The Ernst Badian Collection of Roman Republican Coins is housed by the Special Collections and University Archives of the Rutgers University libraries . At the 2012 meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians in Chapel Hill , North Carolina , ancient historians T. Corey Brennan and Jerzy Linderski delivered papers reflecting on the historical methodologies employed by Badian . Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Boston metropolitan area. A research university is a university that expects all its tenured and tenure-track faculty to continuously engage in research, as opposed to merely requiring it as a condition of an initial appointment or tenure. Such universities can be recognized by their strong focus on innovative research and the prestige of their brand names. On the one hand, research universities strive to recruit faculty who are the most brilliant minds in their disciplines in the world, and their students enjoy the opportunity to learn from such experts. On the other hand, new students are often disappointed to realize their undergraduate courses at research universities are overly academic and fail to provide vocational training with immediate "real world" applications; but many employers value degrees from research universities because they know that such coursework develops fundamental skills like critical thinking.  The Ivy League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group beyond the sports context. The eight institutions are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University. The term "Ivy League" has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism.
candidates: boston cambridge columbia dartmouth harvard massachusetts middlesex county most
answer: boston