Henry Williamson Haynes

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Henry Williamson Haynes (born September 20, 1831 in Bangor , Maine , † February 16, 1912 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was an American archaeologist .

Life

Haynes was the son of the editor of the Democratic Eastern Republican newspaper , Nathaniel Haynes. After graduating from Harvard University in 1851 , he first worked as a teacher, then studied law with a degree in 1856 and worked as a lawyer for several years . He was appointed to the chair of Latin at the University of Vermont , after which he received the chair of Greek and Latin and from 1869 was also a librarian at the university. He gave up these positions in 1873 to devote himself to archeology.

In Europe he spent six years systematically studying the antiquities of different countries and taking part in international congresses. In the winter of 1877/78 he stayed in Egypt to look for Paleolithic evidence. He presented the results of his research at the Congrès international des sciences anthropologique in Paris in 1878, for which he was awarded a medal and diploma. His contribution Discovery of Paleolithic Implements in Egypt appeared in the Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1881 . In 1880, Haynes was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts .

After returning to the United States, Haynes settled in Boston. Here he was on the city's school committee and on the board of directors of the Boston Public Library , and he also held positions in various scientific societies of which he was a member. He was mainly engaged in archeology and collected artifacts from the American Southwest and Mexico in particular. His specialties were geofacts , the Neolithic and the Paleolithic . He has published in scientific journals, was Vice President of the Boston Society of Natural History and a member of the Executive Committee of the Archaeological Institute of America . His obituary writer, Charles Peabody, highlights his article Progress of American Archeology during the Past Ten Years [1889–1899] as noteworthy. Peabody called Haynes a "humanistically educated man of the old school".

After his death, his collections came to the four institutions: the Peabody Museum , the Classical Department of Harvard University, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Boston Society of Natural History; his private library came to Harvard University.

Fonts

A bibliography of his more than 140 contributions can be found in the American Anthropologist , New Series, Volume 15, Number 2, 1913, pp. 342–346 ( doi: 10.1525 / aa.1913.15.2.02a00130 ).

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  1. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1850–1899 (PDF) at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  2. ↑ in: American Journal of Archeology 2nd Series, Volume 4, 1900, pp. 17-39 ( JSTOR 496710 ).
personal data
SURNAME Haynes, Henry Williamson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Bangor , Maine
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1912
Place of death Boston , Massachusetts