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GARDNER, PERCY (1846 )

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 462 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GAG-GEO
GARDNER, PERCY (1846 ) ,
English
  classical archaeologist, was born in London, and was educated at the City of London school and Christ's College,
Cambridge
  (fellow, 1872). He was Disney professor of archaeology at
Cambridge
  from r88o to 1887, and was then appointed professor of classical archaeology at
Oxford
 , where he had a stimulating
influence
  on the study of ancient, and particularly
Greek
 , art. He also became prominent as an historical critic on Biblical subjects. Among his works are: Types of
Greek
  Coins (1883): A Numismatic Commentary on Pausanias (with F. Imhoof-Blumer, 1887); New Chapters in Greek History (1892), an
account
  of excavations in
Greece
  and Aisa
Minor
 ;
Manual
  of Greek Antiquities (with F. B. Jevons, 2nd ed. 1898); Grammar of Greek Art (1905); Exploratio Evangelica (1899), on the origin of Christian belief; A Historic View of_the New Testament (1901); Growth of Christianity (1907).
His brother, ERNEST ARTHUR GARDNER (1862- ), educated at the City of London school and Caius College, Cambridge (fellow, 1885), is also well known as an archaeologist. From 1887 to 1895 he was director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens, and later became professor of archaeology at University College, London. His publications include: Introduction to Greek Epigraphy (1887); Ancient Athens (1902); Handbook of Greek Sculpture (1905); Six Greek Sculptors (1910). He was elected first Public Orator of London University in 1910.


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