Later, Evans also tried to destroy the career of Alan Wace, ayoung Cambridge scholar who argued that warlike Mycenaeans from mainland Greece had eclipsed the Minoans late in the Bronze Age, a view that today has become widely accepted.
The portrait of the unidentified young man, perhaps a writer or scholar, is said to be one of the most important Renaissance portraits still in private hands.
Mr. Gingrich was recommended to West Georgia as a dynamic young academic "with a single-minded purpose in life: to become a fine teacher-scholar, " wrote Charles P.