Richard Chandler

This article is about the archaeologist Richard Chandler; on the entrepreneur of the same name, see Richard Chandler (entrepreneur) .

Richard Chandler [ ˈtʃɑːndlə ] (* 1738 in Elson , Hampshire ; † February 9, 1810 in Tilehurst , Berkshire ) was a British classical archaeologist .

Life

Chandler first attended Winchester College and later moved to Oxford University . There he studied first at Queen's College , then later at Magdalen College . At the latter he became a fellow and researched a. a. the antiquities collection of Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel . He carried on John Selden's research and on the basis of his Marmora Arundelliana Chandler was able to publish his Marmora Oxoniensia in 1763 .

On behalf of the Societät der Dilettanti , Chandler traveled to Ionia , Attica , Argolis and Elis in 1764 . On this research trip he was accompanied by the architect Nicholas Revett (1720–1804) and the painter William Pars (1742–1782). In 1766 the group returned to England with rich yield.

Works (selection)

• Richard Chandler, Nicholas Revett, William Pars Ionian antiquities , London 1769. Digitized by Arachne
  • New edition under the title Antiquities of Ionia . Volume 1, London 1821. Digitized at Heidelberg University . Corrected and comprehensively expanded based on the results of another expedition to Ionia, also on behalf of the Society of Dilettanti by William Gell , John Peter Gandy and Francis Bedford .
  • Antiquities of Ionia (German translation of volumes 1 and 2 of the Antiquities of Ionia by Karl Wagner). Darmstadt 1829. archive.org
• Inscriptiones antiquae pleraeque nondum editae, in Asia Minori et Graccia praesertim Athenis collectae . Dodsley, Oxford 1774. archive.org
• History of Ilium or Troy. Including the adjacent country and the opposite coast of the Chersonesus of Thrace . Robson, London 1802. archive.org .
• Travel in Asia Minor London 1775. archive.org .
• Travels in Asia Minor Leipzig 1776. Digitized . (Reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 1976, ISBN 3-487-05997-5 )
• Travels in Greece . London 1776.
  • Travel in Greece . Leipzig 1777; translated by Heinrich Christian Boie ). archive.org . (Reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 1976, ISBN 3-487-05741-7 ).
• Travels in Asia Minor, and Greece , two volumes (3rd edition of Travels in Asia Minor and 3rd edition of Travels in Greece), London 1817; Part 1  - Internet Archive - Part 2  - Internet Archive
• Marmora Oxoniensia . Oxford 1763. archive.org .

literature

• Chandler, Richard . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 5 : Calhoun - Chatelaine . London 1910, p. 838 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Chandler in the catalog of the German National Library

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