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David George Hogarth
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or "DAVID GEORGE HOGARTH (1862-), British classical archaeologist, was born at Barton-on-Humber May 23 1862. Educated at Winchester and Magdalen College, Oxford, he became first Craven travelling fellow in 1886. Together with Sir William Ramsay he made journeys of exploration in Asia Minor between 1887 and 1894. He has conducted numerous excavations, notably Paphos (1888), Der-el-Bahari (1894), Naukratis (1899 and 1903), Knossos (1900), Ephesus (1904-5), Assiut (1906-7) and Carchemish (1911). He was director of the British School at Athens from 1897 to 1900, and was appointed keeper of the Ashmolean museum at Oxford in 1909. He is a fellow of the British Academy and a Founder's gold medallist of the Royal Geographical Society (1917). During the World War (as Commander R.N.V.R.) he directed the Arab intelligence bureau at Cairo under the British Admiralty (1915-9), went to Arabia on a special mission in 1916, accompanied the British army to Palestine in 1918, and was British commissioner (Middle East Commission) at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
Amongst his publications are Devia Cypria (1890); A Wandering Scholar in the Levant (1896); Philip and Alexander of Macedon (1897); The Nearer East (1902); The Penetration of Arabia (1904); Accidents of an Antiquary's Life (1910) The Balkans (1915); Hittite Seals (1920) and many archaeological reports.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'David George Hogarth'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/d/david-george-hogarth.html. 1910.
