William Mitchell Ramsay

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William Mitchell Ramsay.

Sir William Mitchell Ramsay (born May 15, 1851 in Glasgow , † April 20, 1939 in Bournemouth ) was a Scottish ancient historian and classical archaeologist .

Life

Ramsay studied classical studies at the universities of Aberdeen , Oxford and Göttingen . 1885-86 he held the first professorship for Classical Archeology at Oxford ( Lincoln Professor of Classical Archeology and Art ), from 1886 to 1911 he was Regius Professor of Humanity at the University of Aberdeen.

His main field of work was the historical geography of Asia Minor . Ramsay traveled to Asia Minor for the first time in 1880 and this first stay was to be followed by further extensive research trips annually until 1890 and then again from 1900 to 1914. During excavations in Antioch in Pisidia in 1914 and 1924, he discovered fragments of another copy of Augustus' so-called report of deeds .

By combining personal views with epigraphic and written sources, he made a significant contribution to the localization of individual places and landscapes and their history. He was particularly interested in the location of the New Testament writings in Asia Minor and the history of early Christianity there.

While he initially assumed that the information in the book of Acts was often unreliable, in the course of his research he became more and more convinced that it is extremely reliable and expressed respect for the historian Luke. Further study. . . showed that the book could bear the most minute scrutiny as an authority for the facts of the Aegean world, and that it was written with such judgment, skill, art and perception of truth as to be a model of historical statement. (“Further research… showed that the book stood up to the most rigorous scrutiny of its authority of the Aegean world and was written with so much judgment, skill, art and perception of truth that it was a model for a historical work represents. ")

In 1902 he was a founding member of the British Academy . Ramsay was ennobled in 1906, was an honorary doctor of nine universities, and was a member of several learned societies.

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In his effective writing on the epistles of the Revelation of John , Ramsay shows many historical references of the epistles to the local events of the addressee communities. This approach shaped research on the Revelation of John and was continued positively. In the opinion of today's researchers, Ramsay neglected obvious Old Testament references (e.g. in the Christ attributes at the beginning of the respective missives).

Works

  • The Historical Geography of Asia Minor . London 1890 ( archive.org )
  • The Church in the Roman Empire Before AD 170. , London 1893, 3rd edition 1894, 4th edition 1904 webminister.com
  • The Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia. Being an essay of the local history of Phrygia from the earliest times to the Turkish conquest . 2 vol. Oxford 1895-1897
  • St. Paul, the Traveler and the Roman Citizen . London 1892, 3rd edition 1897, 7th edition 1903. Dt. Translation Gütersloh 1896 webminister.com ; ccel.org
  • Impressions of Turkey during twelve years' wanderings . London 1897
  • What is Christ born at Bethlehem? London 1898 ccel.org
  • A Historical Commentary on St. Paul's Epistile to the Galatians . London 1899, 4th ed. 1900 webminister.com
  • The Education of Christ: hill-side reveries . London 1902
  • The Letters of the Seven Churches in Asia and their Place in the Plan of the Apocalypse . London 1904 ccel.org
  • Cilicia, Tarsus, and the Great Taurus Pass . In: The Geographical Journal , 22/4, (Oct. 1903), 357-410.
  • Pauline and other Studies in Early Christian History . London 1906, 2nd edition 1908
  • Editor: Studies in the History and Art of the Eastern Provinces of the Roman Empire . Aberdeen 1906
  • The Cities of St. Paul. Their Influence on his Life and Thought: the cities of Eastern Asia Minor . London 1907
  • Luke the physician and other stories in the history of religion . London 1908 webminister.com
  • with Gertrude L. Bell : The Thousand and One Churches . London 1909
  • The First Christian Century . London 1911 webminister.com
  • The Bearing of Recent Discovery on the Trustworthiness of the New Testament . London 1915, 4th edition 1920 webminister.com
  • The Social Basis of Roman Power in Asia Minor . Aberdeen 1941

literature

  • Ramsay, Sir William Mitchell . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 22 : Poll - Reeves . London 1911, p. 880 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
  • Henri Grégoire: Sir William Ramsay . In: Byzantion , 6, 1931, pp. V-XII.
  • The Times , April 22, 1939, p. 14.
  • Comptes Rendus de l'Acádemie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres , (1939) pp. 231-236.
  • John GC Anderson: Ramsay, Sir William Mitchell . In: The Dictionary of National Biography , 1931-1940. London 1949. pp. 727-728 webminister.com
  • W. Ward Gasque: Sir William M. Ramsay. Archaeologist and New Testament scholar. A survey of his contribution to the study of the New Testament . Grand Rapids 1966 webminister.com
  • Douglas A. Templeton: Paul of Tarsus and Ramsay of Durham . In: Modern Churchman , NS 23 (1980) pp. 97-102
  • Klaus-Gunther Wesseling:  William Mitchell Ramsay. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 7, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-048-4 , Sp. 1319-1320.

Festschriften

  • William H. Buckler, William M. Calder (Eds.): Anatolian Studies presented to Sir William Mitchell Ramsay . Manchester 1923 [here p. XIII-XXXVIII bibliography of his writings up to 1923]
  • Byzantium . Volume 6 (1931)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ramsay: The Bearing of Recent Discovery , p. 85
  2. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 23, 2020 .