Frederick William Hasluck

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The Aisepos Bridge in Mysia, discovered and described by Hasluck

Frederick William Hasluck (* 16th February 1878 in Bytham Lodge, Municipal Borough of Southgate in the former county of Middlesex , England ; † 22. February 1920 in the sanatorium Beau Reveil in Leysin , Switzerland ) was an English historian and archaeologist .

Life

Hasluck received his education at Leys School and King's College of the University of Cambridge . After graduating from college in 1904, he worked at the British School in Athens (BSA), where he was active in the excavations in Laconia at Geraki and Aggelona, and in Cyzicus and Bithynia . Hasluck found a lot of new material, including an inscription from Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus and unpublished local coins. His most notable find was the Aisepos Bridge , a large previously undescribed Roman bridge in Mysia , where he also examined the remains of the Makestos Bridge , the White Bridge and the Constantine Bridge . In 1906 he toured Asia Minor with Richard MacGillivray Dawkins .

Hasluck married Margaret Hardie while continuing to work at the British School in Athens, where he was assistant director from 1911 to 1915 and librarian from 1906 to 1915. Margaret selected a trip to Konya , the former Iconium , from her husband's offers , where the couple spent the spring of 1913. Frederick has long been interested in the mutual influence of Christianity and Islam in the Ottoman Empire and made this topic more and more the focus of his work. The Haslucks lived in Athens and made extensive trips to the southwest of the Balkans over the next four years .

Hasluck's work as an ancient historian and archaeologist at the British School in Athens was terminated due to several factors. Hasluck got more and more distressed by AJB Wace , who worked with Hasluck on the excavations in Laconia. It would appear that Wace saw Hasluck as a potential competitor. Wace became a board member of the British School in Athens, returned to London, where he was elected director of the school, and saw that Hasluck was dismissed from the British School - probably also because of hostilities with Margaret, Hasluck's wife.

The Haslucks continued to stay in Athens, but now they worked for the British legation and helped with intelligence operations.

1916 Haslucks moved to Switzerland, where Frederick in the tuberculosis - sanatorium Beau Reveil moved and died after four years on February 22 1920th

Publications (selection)

  • with AJB Wace: Laconia . In: The Annual of the British school at Athens . No. 11 (1904/1905) , pp. 81-145 , JSTOR : i30096308 ( ebooksread.com [EBOOK; 288 kB ]).
  • A Roman Bridge on the Aesepus . In: The Annual of the British School at Athens . No. 12 , November 18, 1906, p. 184-189 , doi : 10.1017 / S0068245400008066 ( ebooksread.com [EBOOK; 433 kB ]).
  • Cyzicus . University Press, Cambridge 1910 ( unz.org ).
  • Constantinata . In: Essays William Ridgeway . University Press, Cambridge 1913, pp. 635–638 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  • Athos and its Monasteries . London 1924.
  • Letters on Religion and Folklore . Luzac, London 1926.
  • Christianity and Islam under the Sultans . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1929.

literature

  • Hasluck, Frederick William . 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. 283 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • William Reginald Halliday: Obituary of FW Hasluck. In: Folk-Lore. 31, 1920, pp. 336-338.
  • David Shankland: Archeology, Anthropology and Heritage in the Balkans and Anatolia: The Life and Times of FW Hasluck 1878-1920. Isis Press, Istanbul 2004.

Web links

Commons : Frederick William Hasluck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Frederick William Hasluck  - Sources and full texts (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franklin Lewis: Rumi. Past and Present, East and West. The life, teaching and poetry of Jalâl al-Din Rumi. Oneworld, 2007, p. 505.
  2. ^ Robert Elsie: Historical Dictionary of Albania. Scarecrow Press, 2010, pp. 184-185.
personal data
SURNAME Hasluck, Frederick William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English ancient historian and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Bytham Lodge, Municipal Borough of Southgate , England
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1920
Place of death Leysin