Albert M. Lythgoe

Albert Morton Lythgoe ( 1868 - January 30, 1934 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was an American Egyptologist .

Life

Lythgoe initially worked in the greater Boston area. He worked as a lecturer at Harvard University and founded the Egypt department of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts . Together with George Andrew Reisner , he carried out excavations in the necropolis of Giza . In 1905 he was lured away by JP Morgan , then President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City , to also set up an Egypt department there. In October 1906 he gave up his activities in Boston and took up his new position as curator in New York. He hired his former student Herbert E. Winlock as well as Arthur C. Mace , Ambrose Lansing and Charles Wilkinson to work . Lythgoe led to the Metropolitan Museum excavations in the royal necropolis of the Middle Kingdom in Lisht , in the oasis Kharga and in Luxor by. Through his friendship with the millionaire Edward S. Harkness , he was also able to raise extensive donations for the museum, both from Harkness himself and from Henry Walters , who later founded the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore . Lythgoe retired in November 1929, but continued to work in the museum and did not finally retire until April 1933. His successor as curator of the Egypt department of the Metropolitan Museum was Herbert E. Winlock.

The Tomb of Perneb. (1916)
with Norman de Garis Davies: The Tomb of Nakht at Thebes. (1917)
The Treasure of Lahun. (1919)
Naga-ed-Dêr. Part 4. The Predynastic Cemetery N 7000. (1965), edited by Dows Dunham

Albert Morton Lythgoe. 1868-1934. In: Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Volume 29, No. 3, 1934, pp. 42-43 ( JSTOR 3256826 ).

↑ Personal details . In: Archive for Orient Research. Volume 9, 1933/34, p. 234 ( online ).

personal data
SURNAME	Lythgoe, Albert M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lythgoe, Albert Morton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1868
DATE OF DEATH	January 30, 1934
Place of death	Boston , Massachusetts