Arthur Strong

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Sandford Arthur Strong

Sandford Arthur Strong (born April 10, 1863 in London , † January 18, 1904 ) was an English orientalist , art historian and librarian.

Life

Strong was born on April 10, 1863, the second son of Thomas Strong of the War Office and his wife Anna Lawson in London. His older brother was Bishop Thomas Banks Strong (1861-1944). In 1877 he entered St Paul's School in London and stayed there for a little over a year. For the next two years he was an employee of Lloyd's of London , although during that time he also attended courses at King's College . As a boy he learned to draw from Albert Varley, who gave him a copy of Matthew Pilkington's Dictionary of Painters , and he attended the National Gallery . In 1881, he enrolled on a Hutchinson scholarship at St John's College , Cambridge . He graduated there in 1884. In 1890 he graduated with a Master of Arts .

On the recommendation of Edward Byles Cowell , Strong worked with Cecil Bendall while undergraduate in Sanskrit , but discouraged at Cambridge, he moved to Oxford in late 1885. There he was the librarian of the Indian Institute and made friends with Max Müller , Archibald Henry Sayce and Adolf Neubauer . Neubauer advised him to visit continental Europe and gave him letters of recommendation to Ernest Renan and James Darmesteter in Paris. He also studied with Eberhard Schrader in Berlin. When he returned to England, recognition and employment were a long time coming, and his application for a professorship in Arabic at Cambridge, which was only vacated by Robertson Smith's death in 1894, was unsuccessful. In 1895 Strong was appointed professor of Arabic at University College London . During this time he taught Gertrude Bell Persian.

Sidney Colvin introduced Strong to the Duke of Devonshire , who needed a librarian to succeed Sir James Lacaita . At Chatsworth House , Strong concentrated on his works of art from 1895 and was invited to other collections: that of the Dukes of Portland at Welbeck Abbey , where he also worked for a time as a librarian, that of the Earl of Pembroke at Wilton House and that of Lord Wantage in Lockinge .

In 1897, Strong was also a librarian in the House of Lords . After a long illness he died in London on January 18, 1904 and was buried in Brompton Cemetery . The Arthur Strong Oriental Library at University College London was formed around his books, which were donated by his widow.

Works

Strong's most important oriental publications were his editions of the Maha-Bodhi-Vamsa for the Pali Text Society (1891), and the Futah al-Habashah or Conquest of Abyssinia (1894) for the monographs of the Royal Asiatic Society . At his death he was busy with the Arabic text History of Yakmak, Sultan of Egypt on Jaqmaq by Ibn Arabshah . The first part of it appeared in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of 1904. In addition to Sanskrit and Arabic, Strong researched Pali, Persian and Assyrian hieroglyphs, and Chinese, all of which he wrote in scholarly publications, and he also contributed reviews in the Athenaeum and The journals Academy at.

Most of Strong's art publications included:

  • Reproductions of Drawings by the Old Masters in the Collection of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery at Wilton House. 1900.
  • Preface to Plates of National Gallery Pictures. 1901, publishers Franz Hanfstaengl.
  • Masterpieces of the Duke of Devonshire's Collection of Pictures. 1901.
  • Reproductions of Drawings by the Old Masters at Chatsworth. 1902.
  • Catalog of Letters and other Historical Documents in the Library of Welbeck. 1903.

In the House of Lords, Strong made two catalogs, one of the general library and one of the law books.

family

In 1897 he married the archaeologist Eugénie Sellers , who survived him. The marriage remained childless.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h James Sutherland Cotton: Strong, Sandford Arthur. In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . 1912 supplement (DNB12). Volume 3. Smith, Elder & Co., London 1912, Col. 442 f. ( Wikisource ).
  2. ↑ Strong, Sandford Arthur . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume 6 : Square – Zupitza . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1954, pp. 69 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Liora Lukitz: Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com ), as of 2004
personal data
SURNAME Strong, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strong, Sandford Arthur (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English orientalist, art historian and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1904
Place of death London