Mary Hamilton Swindler

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Mary Hamilton "Mayme" Swindler (born January 2, 1884 in Bloomington , Indiana , † January 16, 1967 in Haverford , Pennsylvania ) was an American archaeologist and expert on ancient art. She was an art historian at Bryn Mawr College and a professor of archeology at several universities in the United States .

Life

Swindler was born in 1884 as the second daughter of the baker and restaurant owner Harrison T. and Ida Hamilton Swindler. After attending school in Bloomington and high school, she attended Indiana University , where she received a bachelor's degree in 1905 and a master's degree in 1906. She specialized in Greek, Latin and archeology.

The Bryn Mawr College granted Swindler a scholarship stay in Greece in 1906/07. In 1909/120 she received the Mary E. Garrett European Fellowship to study at the University of Berlin and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens . She then did her doctorate at Bryn Mawr College until 1912 and then worked there as a research assistant. Swindler worked here with her former student Dorothy Burr Thompson on vases in the Bryn Mawr College Museum's Mediterranean Department.

In 1931 Swindler received a call to the chair of classical archeology. She was the first woman to hold the position of editor for the American Journal of Archeology from 1932 to 1946. After an archaeological expedition to Tarsus from 1934 to 1938, she founded the "Ella Riegel Memorial Museum for Archeology" at Bryn Mawr College.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s she was on excavations in Greece, Egypt and Turkey. Despite her retirement in 1949, she continued to work on archaeological sites. So she worked in Gordion in 1951 . Swindler was considered an expert in the field of Greek painting. She advised the Archaeological Institute of America , the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, the American Association of University Women, and the Encyclopedia Britannica .

After her retirement at Bryn Mawr College, Swindler was Professor of Archeology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1949/50 and then until 1953 at the University of Michigan .

Swindler died in 1967 of pneumonia.

Awards and honors

Swindler has received many awards and prizes including:

  • 1941: Honorary Doctorate from Indiana University
  • 1951: American Association of University Women Award
  • 1959: Special award from the American Council of Learned Societies

Memberships

Fonts (selection)

  • Another vase by the Master of the Penthesilea Cylix . 1909
  • Cretan Elements in the Cults and Ritual of Apollo . Also dissertation, The Lord Baltimore Press, Baltimore 1913
  • The Bryn Mawr Collection of Greek Vases . 1916
  • Ancient painting . Yale University Press, New Haven, 1929

literature

  • In honor of Mary Hamilton Swindler . In: American journal of Archeology , Archaeological Institute of America, Vol. 54, No. 4 (October 1950)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c D.BT: Mary Hamilton Swindler . In: American Journal of Archeology , Archaeological Institute of America, Volume 54, No. 4, 1950, pp. 290-293
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Phyllis J. Read, Bernard L. Witlieb: The Book of Women's Firsts: Breakthrough Achievements of Almost 1,000 American Women . Random House, 1992, p. 432
  3. ^ Eleanor Winsor Leach: Mary Hamilton Swindler , Women in Old World Archeology, Brown University
  4. ^ A b c d e f g New York Times (obituary section), Jan 18, 1967
  5. ↑ a b c Linda M. Medwid: The Makers of Classical Archeology: A Reference Work . Humanity Books, 2000, pp. 285f.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h Machteld J. Mellink: Mary Hamilton Swindler . In: Expedition Magazine , University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, Volume 9, No. 3 (May 1967), pp. 8-16
  7. ↑ Barbara Sicherman: Notable American Women: The Modern Period: a Biographical Dictionary . Harvard University Press, 1980, p. 668 ( digitized from Google Books )
  8. ↑ Stephen L. Dyson: Ancient Marbles to American Shores: Classical Archeology in the United States . University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998, p. 47 ( digitized from Google Books )
  9. ↑ Honoree Mary Hamilton Swindler , University Honors & Awards, Indiana University, accessed February 19, 2017
  10. ^ Member History: Mary Hamilton Swindler. American Philosophical Society, accessed January 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Swindler, Mary Hamilton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Swindler, Mayme (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Bloomington (Indiana)
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1967
Place of death Haverford, Pennsylvania