Ernest Arthur Gardner

Ernest Arthur Gardner (born March 16, 1862 in Clapton , London , † November 27, 1939 in Maidenhead , Berkshire ) was a British classical archaeologist .

Gardner, son of a stockbroker, visited the City of London School and studied from 1880 to 1884 Classical Studies at Gonville and Caius College of Cambridge University . Here he was also a fellow from 1885 to 1894. 1885-86 he took part in the excavations of the Egypt Exploration Society in Naukratis with Flinders Petrie . From 1886 he was at the British School at Athens , whose director he was from 1887 to 1895. He first carried out excavations in Old Paphos and Salamis in Cyprus , and later in Megalopolis .

From 1896 to 1929 he was Yates Professor of Classical Art and Archeology at the University College of London University . Mortimer Wheeler was one of his students .

During the First World War he served as an intelligence officer from 1915 to 1919, first in Greece and later in London.

His older brother Percy Gardner (1846-1937) was also a classical archaeologist.

literature

• Gardner, Ernest 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 3 : Gabb – Justamond . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1947, pp. 11 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• The Dictionary of British Classicists. 1500-1960. Thoemmes Continuum, Bristol 2004, ISBN 1-85506-997-0 , Volume 2, pp.
• Jocelyn Toynbee , HDA Major, David Gill: Gardner, Ernest Arthur. In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, Volume 21, pp. ( Full text ).

Web links

• Dictionary of Art Historians
• Works by Ernest Arthur Gardner in the Internet Archive