Percy Gardner
Percy Gardner (born November 24, 1846 in Hackney , London , † July 17, 1937 in Oxford ) was a British classical archaeologist and numismatist .
Gardner, son of a stockbroker, attended the City of London School and initially joined his father's company. From 1865 to 1869 he studied classical studies at Christ's College of Cambridge University . He began his career as a numismatist and worked from 1871 to 1887 as Assistant Keeper at the coin collection of the British Museum in London, where he a. a. authored six volumes of the catalog of Greek coins. From 1880 to 1887 he was parallel to this Disney Professor of Archeology at Cambridge University. In 1886 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . From 1887 to 1925 he taught as the Lincoln Professor of Classical Archeology and Art at Oxford University . Since 1903 he was a member ( fellow ) of the British Academy .
Gardner worked in addition to numismatics mainly in the field of Greek art history. He was largely responsible for the development of Oxford University into a leading center of archaeological science. a. John D. Beazley and Bernard Ashmole .
His younger brother Ernest Arthur Gardner (1862-1939) was also a classical archaeologist.
literature
- Gardner, Percy . 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. 13 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- George Francis Hill : Percy Gardner, 1846-1937. In: Publications of the British Academy. Volume 23, 1937, pp. 459-469.
- Philip Freeman: Gardner, Percy. In: Robert B. Todd (Ed.): The Dictionary of British Classicists. 1500-1960. Volume 2, Thoemmes Continuum, Bristol 2004, ISBN 1-85506-997-0 , pp. 378-380.
- Daniel Graepler : Gardner, Percy. In: Peter Kuhlmann , Helmuth Schneider (Hrsg.): History of the ancient sciences. Biographical Lexicon (= The New Pauly . Supplements. Volume 6). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02033-8 , Sp. 446 f.
Web links
- Dictionary of Art Historians
- Portrait by Percy Gardner
- Works by Percy Gardner in the Internet Archive
- Digitized numismatic publications by Percy Gardner
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Volume 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Series 3, volume 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 89.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gardner, Percy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British classical archaeologist and numismatist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hackney , London |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 17, 1937 |
| Place of death | Oxford |