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Albert Augustus Trever

1874–1940

A longtime Lawrence College history professor, he wrote a detailed early study of how the ancient Greeks thought about economics and social life. His work brings classical history and economic ideas together in a way that still feels surprisingly modern.

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A History of Greek Economic Thought

A History of Greek Economic Thought

by Albert Augustus Trever

About the author

Born in 1874 and died in 1940, Albert Augustus Trever was an American historian and scholar of the ancient world. Lawrence University notes that he taught history there from 1905 to 1940, and the campus residence hall Trever Hall was later named in his honor.

Trever is best known as the author of A History of Greek Economic Thought, a study first published in 1916. Contemporary catalog records and editions describe it as work connected with his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, and a contemporary review identifies it as a dissertation prepared there under the direction of classicist Paul Shorey.

His writing focused on ancient civilization, especially the social and economic ideas found in Greek history and literature. That mix of classical scholarship and broad human questions gives his work a lasting appeal for listeners interested in both antiquity and the history of ideas.