Percy Gardner

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy datesTemplate:Use British English Template:Infobox academic Percy Gardner, Template:Post-nominals (24 November 1846Template:Snd17 July 1937) was an English classical archaeologist and numismatist. He was Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge from 1879 to 1887. He was Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the University of Oxford from 1887 to 1925.

Early life

Gardner was born in Hackney, Middlesex, United Kingdom on 24 November 1846 to Thomas Gardner and Ann Pearse.<ref name="Dic AH">Template:Cite web</ref> He was educated at the City of London School to the age of fifteen when he joined his father's stockbroker business. Having been unsuccessful in the field, in 1865 he matriculated into Christ's College, Cambridge. He graduated with a first-class Bachelor of Arts (BA) in the classics and moral sciences tripos in 1869.<ref name="Dic AH" /> In 1870, he received the one year, University of Cambridge Whewell Scholarship in international law.<ref name=ODNB>Template:Cite ODNB</ref>

Academic career

From 1871 to 1887, Gardner was an assistant in the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum. While there, he helped to write the first collections catalogues for Greek coins at the museum.<ref name="Dic AH" /> He was elected a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge in 1872.<ref name=ODNB /> He held the first editorship of The Journal of Hellenic Studies from 1879 to 1895.<ref name="Dic AH" /> He was Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge from 1879 to 1886.<ref name="Dic AH" /> He then moved to the University of Oxford and held the Lincoln and Merton Professorship of Classical Archaeology from 1887 to 1925.<ref name="Dic AH" /> During his time at the university, he had a stimulating influence on the study of ancient, and particularly Greek, art.<ref name="EB1911">Template:EB1911</ref> He was succeeded by John Beazley.<ref name="Dic AH" /> In his later years, he also became prominent as an historical critic on Biblical subjects.<ref name="EB1911"/>

Gardner died on 17 July 1937 in Oxford, England.<ref name="Dic AH" />

Awards

Gardner was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 1903.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the Archaeological Institute of America.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Personal life

Gardner was married to Agnes Reid until their marriage broke down in 1874.<ref name="Dic AH" /> His sister Alice Gardner was a historian and her brother, Ernest Arthur Gardner, was also an archaeologist.<ref> Gillian Sutherland, 'Gardner, Alice (1854–1927)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 21 Feb 2017</ref>

Selected works

• Stephani on the Tombs at Mycenae. The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1, 94–106 (1880)
• Statuette of Pallas from Cyprus. The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 2, 326-331 (1881)
• Types of Greek Coins (1883)<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• The Coins of the Greek and Scythic Kings of Bactria and India in the British Museum (1886)
• A Numismatic Commentary on Pausanias (with Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer, 1887)
• New Chapters in Greek History: Historical Results of Recent Excavations in Greece and Asia Minor (1892)<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• Manual of Greek Antiquities (1895)
• Sculptured Tombs of Hellas (1896)
• Exploratio Evangelica: A Brief Examination of the Basis and Origin of Christian Belief (1899)
• A Historic View of the New Testament (1901)
• Oxford at the Crossroads: A Criticism of the Course of Litterae Humaniores in the University (1903)<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• A Grammar of Greek Art (1905)
• Growth of Christianity: London Lectures (1907)
• The Religious Experience of Saint Paul (1911)
• The Ephesian Gospel (1915)
• Evolution in Christian Ethics (1918)
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External links

• "Homer and Recent Archæology", Percy Gardner in Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. LIV, May to Oct. 1886, pages 368-379
• Digital Library Numis (DLN) Gardner online books and articles