Lida Shaw King

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Portrait of Lida Shaw King painted by Frank Weston Benson

Lida Shaw King (born September 15, 1868 in Boston , † January 10, 1932 in Providence ) was an American archaeologist and classical philologist . From 1909 to 1922 she was Professor of Classical Literature and Archeology at Brown University .

Life

King was born in 1868 as the daughter of Baptist pastor Henry Melville King and his wife Susan Ellen and raised by their grandmother. She graduated from Vassar College with a successful degree in Classical Studies in 1890 and earned a Masters degree from Brown University in 1894. She then taught as a lecturer in Greek and Latin at Vassar College (1894/95). She then deepened her studies at Radcliffe College (1897/98), at Bryn Mawr College (1899/1900) and at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens (1900/01). Although the school was attended by seven men and eight women, women were not allowed to participate in excavations. Although the women were allowed to travel and draw, they were not allowed to do direct excavations. The student Harriet Boyd-Hawes then became the first woman to dig in Crete and financed the work with her scholarship. King was so impressed that she and some professors and her fellow student Ida Thallon funded an excavation in Vari to participate. Archaeologist Charles Weller hesitated for a moment, but decided that the two women were allowed to participate, as they had also financed the excavations. After the excavations, King was responsible for collecting the vases, terracotta statues and bronzes as well as other small objects.

She then taught classical studies at Vassar College from 1894 to 1897 and at the Packer Collegiate Institute in 1898/99 and 1901/02 . In 1905 she became an associate professor of classical philology at Brown University and dean of the Women's College at Brown University (now Pembroke College ), where she remained until 1922. In 1909 she became a professor of classical literature and archeology. She has written numerous articles for the American Journal of Archeology .

In 1922 she gave up all of her positions for health reasons. King died in Providence in 1932.

Fonts

  • with Ida Carleton Thallon Hill: Decorated Architectural Terracottas . (= Corinth excavation reports Volume 4, Part 1), American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1929

literature

  • Mary E. Wooley: Lida Shaw King. An appreciation . The Merrymount Press, Boston 1923

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Faith Ford Sandstrom: Lida Shaw King (1868–1932) , Brown University, accessed February 18, 2017 (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME King, Lida Shaw
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American archaeologist and classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1932
Place of death Providence