Edward T. Newell

Edward Theodore Newell (born January 15, 1886 in Kenosha , Wisconsin , † February 18, 1941 in New York ) was an American numismatist .

Edward T. Newell was the son of Frederick and Frances Newell. His mother was the heiress of the Bain Wagon Company , which had specialized in the mass production of horse-drawn wagons , making her the richest woman in Wisconsin. After her death in 1907, the fortune went to her son, who made a living as a wealthy private scholar and collector in New York could afford. He graduated from Yale University ( BA 1907, MA in Archeology and Oriental Languages ​​1909). From 1910 until his death in 1941 he was President of the American Numismatic Society .

Newell was an important coin collector and was regarded in his time as the leading specialist in the field of the coins of Alexander the Great and his successors. His publications laid the scientific foundations for the study of Hellenistic numismatics. He bequeathed his collection of more than 87,000 coins to the American Numismatic Society. For his scientific achievements he was the first to receive the Archer M. Huntington Medal in 1918 and the Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society in 1925 , the two highest honors in the field of numismatics.

literature

• William E. Metcalf: Newell, Edward T. In: Nancy Thomson de Grummond (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archeology. Volume 1: A - K. Greenwood Press, Westport CT 1996, ISBN 0-313-30204-9 , p. 801.
• Joseph Ciccone: Young Edward Newell. In: American Numismatic Society Magazine. Vol. 3, No. 3, 2004, ZDB -ID 1286519-9 , pp. 32-36 .
• Stefan Krmniczek: Newell, Edward T. In: Peter Kuhlmann , Helmuth Schneider (Ed.): History of the ancient sciences . Biographical Lexicon (= The New Pauly . Supplements. Volume 6). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02033-8 , Sp. 879 f.

Web links

• Biography at the American Numismatic Society
• List of publications at the American Numismatic Society