Edith Hall Dohan

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Edith Hall Dohan (also Edith Hayward Hall Dohan ; born December 31, 1877 in New Haven , Connecticut , † July 14, 1943 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) was an American classical archaeologist .

Life

Edith Hall was the daughter of math teachers Ely Ransom Hall and Mary Jane Smith Hall, both congregationalists . She was the second oldest daughter of four children and had an older sister Anne Hayward and a younger brother Clarence Hayward. After graduating from Woodstock Academy, she studied at Smith College and graduated in 1899 with a Bachelor of Arts . She taught herself at Woodstock Academy for a year and then began studying archeology and Greek at Bryn Mawr College . In 1903 she received the Agnes Hoppin Memorial Fellowship from the American School of Classical Studies at Athens , which was endowed with US $ 1,000, and the Mary E. Garrett European Fellowship from Bryn Mawr College.

Edith Hall was accepted by Harriet Boyd-Hawes , not least because she could ride a horse, with the excavation team in Gournia on the island of Crete . In 1905 she returned to America and wrote her doctoral thesis The Decorative Art of Crete in the Bronze Age . After receiving her PhD from Bryn Mawr College in 1908, she became a lecturer in Classical Archeology at Mount Holyoke College . In 1910 she took part in Richard Berry Seager's excavations in Sphoungaras and in 1912 in the excavations in Vrokastro . From 1912 she worked at the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania .

On May 12, 1915 she married the lawyer Joseph M. Dohan and until 1920 devoted herself entirely to her two children, David Hayward Warrington and Katharine Elisabeth. She then became the museum's deputy curator and, in 1942, curator of the Mediterranean department. Hall worked his way into a new field, Etruscan art , reconstructed the Etruscan burial classes and organized an exhibition. In 1943 Edith Hall Dohan died unexpectedly of arteriosclerosis and was buried in the Woodstock cemetery.

Publications (selection)

  • Early painted pottery from Gournia, Crete. In: Transactions of the Department of Archeology. Free Museum of Science and Art. Vol. 1, No. 3, 1905, ZDB -ID 625600-4 , pp. 191-205 .
  • Greek and Italian pottery. In: Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Museum. Vol. 4, No. 16, 1906, ISSN  0891-3609 , pp. 53-57, JSTOR 3793411 .
  • The decorative art of Crete in the Bronze age. In: Transactions of the Department of Archeology. Free Museum of Science and Art. Vol. 2, No. 1, 1906, pp. 5-49 .
  • with Harriet Boyd Hawes , Blanche E. Williams and Richard B. Seager: Gournia, Vasiliki and other prehistoric sites on the Isthmus of Hierapetra, Crete. Excavations of the Wells-Houston-Cramp expeditions 1901, 1903, 1904. The American exploration Society - Free Museum of Science and Art, Philadelphia PA 1908, ( online ).
  • Excavations in eastern Crete Sphoungaras (= Anthropological Publications. Vol. 3, No. 2, ZDB -ID 767952-X ). University of Pennsylvania - University Museum, Philadelphia PA 1912, ( online ).
  • Excavations in Eastern Crete, Vrokastro (= Anthropological Publications. Vol. 3, No. 3). University of Pennsylvania - University Museum, Philadelphia PA 1914, ( online ).
  • To Archaic Head from Cyprus. In: The Museum Journal. Vol. 12, No. 3, 1921, ZDB -ID 211616-9 , pp. 201-203 .
  • Archaic Cretan terracottas in America. In: Metropolitan Museum Studies. Vol. 3, No. 2, 1931, ZDB -ID 207793-0 , pp. 209-228, JSTOR 1522780 .
  • with John D. Beazley and Valentin Müller : Recent additions to the classical collections (= The Museum Journal. Vol. 23, No. 1). University of Pennsylvania - University Museum, Philadelphia PA 1932.
  • A brief history of Grace Church. The Church, Baldwinsville, NY 1934.
  • Some unpublished vases in the University Museum, Philadelphia. In: American Journal of Archeology . Vol. 38, No. 4, 1934, pp. 523-532, JSTOR 498187 .
  • Unpublished Etruscan inscriptions in the University Museum in Philadelphia. In: Studi etruschi. Vol. 9, 1935, ISSN  0391-7762 , pp. 325-328.
  • Italic tomb-groups in the University Museum. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia PA 1942.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catalog of officers, graduates and non graduates of Smith college, Northampton, Mass. 1875-1910. Alumnae Association of Smith College, sl 1911, p. 98 .
  2. ↑ Program. Bryn Mawr College. Academic Year 1901-02. sn, Philadelphia PA 1902, p. 16
  3. ^ Edward T. James, Janet Wilson: Notable American women, 1607-1950. A biographical dictionary. Volume 2: G - O. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA et al. 1971.
personal data
SURNAME Dohan, Edith Hall
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hayward Hall, Edith; Hall Dohan, Edith Hayward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Classical Archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH New Haven , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1943
Place of death Philadelphia , Pennsylvania