William Linn Westermann

[2] During his tenure at Columbia, Westermann acquired a large collection of Egyptian papyri for the institution.

[3] His scholarly reputation rests on his book Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity, published posthumously in 1955.

His most prominent pupil was Moses I. Finley, arguably the most influential ancient historian in the world from he 1960s to the 1980s and still an inspiration.

[1] For more on Westermann's scholarly life see above all the article devoted to him in the American National Biography XXIII (1999), by W. V. Harris.

[6] They had one son, Evan Davies Westermann, (1914–1991) who attended the Scarsdale public schools, Phillips Exeter Academy, graduated from Harvard University,[7] and worked for the New York Department of Commerce.