John Henry Haynes

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John Henry Haynes, around 1900

John Henry Haynes (born January 27, 1849 in Rowe , Massachusetts , † June 29, 1910 in North Adams , Massachusetts) was an American archaeologist and photographer . He was best known for his archaeological work on the first two American excavations in the ancient sites of Assos and Nippur . Haynes is considered the father of American photography of archaeological objects.

Life

childhood

Haynes was born in 1849 as the eldest son of John W. Haynes and Emily Taylor. His father died early so he had to help raise his siblings. Still, he went to elementary school in Rowe, then college in North Adams, and later college in Williamstown .

Career as an archaeologist and photographer

Hittite lion sculptures in Arslantaş , Turkey, 1884
Excavations in the Temple of Nippur, 1893

After he happened to meet the President of the American Institute of Archeology , Charles Eliot Norton , Haynes took part in an expedition to Crete , where he met the photographer William James Stillman in Athens . During this expedition his passion for archeology and photography was sparked.

In 1884 he traveled with JR Sitlington Sterrett, William Hayes Ward and Daniel Z. Noorian as part of the Wolfe Expedition from Mersin via Mosul and Erbil to Baghdad . On the way back, the expedition traveled through Syria, where they stayed in Palmyra for five days and made excavations and photographs there. Haynes was the expedition's photographer.

Three years later, Haynes traveled through Anatolia , where he photographed several ancient Phrygian sites, among other things .

As a member of the University of Pennsylvania, Haynes took part in the excavations in the Mesopotamian city ​​of Nippur as the official photographer . He later became head of the excavation, which lasted from 1884 to 1903. During this expedition, the library of the Temple of Nippur was discovered, where over 23,000 ancient writings were found.

Through his work in Mesopotamia, he became the first US consul in Baghdad . Through this office he traveled to many areas of today's Turkey , Syria and Iraq .

Next life

Haynes spent his last days in his homeland, where he died on June 29, 1910 after a long illness.

literature

  • Robert G. Ousterhout : John Henry Haynes - A Photographer and Archaeologist in the Ottoman Empire 1881–1900 London-Istanbul 2011.

Web links

Commons : John Henry Haynes  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Henry Haynes. University of Pennsylvania , 2010, accessed May 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Meet one of Rowe's Most Famous Residents. Rowe Historical Societys, accessed May 23, 2018 .
  3. ^ A b John Henry Haynes and the Wolfe Expedition. Cornell University Library, accessed May 23, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Haynes in Anatolia, 1884 and 1887. Cornell University Library, accessed May 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Haynes, John Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American archaeologist and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Rowe , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1910
Place of death North Adams , Massachusetts