Elizabeth Bayard French

Elizabeth Bayard French , née Elizabeth Bayard Wace (* 1931 ) is a British archaeologist and outstanding expert on the archaeological site of Mycenae .

Elizabeth French is the daughter of the archaeologist couple Helen and Alan Wace . As early as 1939, at the age of eight, she accompanied her parents to the excavations in Mycenae, which her father led. With the outbreak of the Second World War, she boarded the American steamer Excalibur with her mother and traveled to relatives in the USA.

She studied at Newnham College of the University of Cambridge and took from 1953 to 1957 the investigations carried by her father excavations in Mycenae part. Except for 1964 she participated in all excavations of the British School at Athens until 1970. At first she was cutting head of the Cyclopean Terrace Building, at the House of sphinxes and the annex of Südhauses. She later supervised the ceramic finds, was a restorer and photo assistant. For the last three years she supervised the excavations at the citadel houses. From 1970 she spent the summers in Nafplio documenting the finds.

From 1976 to 1989 she was director of Ashburne Hall at the University of Manchester . From 1989 to 1994 she was the director of the British School at Athens .

She married the British archaeologist David H. French .

Fonts (selection)

• Mykenae, Agamemnon's Capital . Stroud, Gloucestershire 2002, ISBN 0-7524-1951-X .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sara A. Immerwahr: Biography of Virginia Grace . October 1996, p. 5 ( brown.edu [PDF; accessed August 30, 2014]).
2. ^ Brian S. Pullan, Michele Abendstern: A History of the University of Manchester, 1973-90 . Manchester University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-7190-6242-X , pp. 307 ( limited preview in Google Book search).