Harvard Semitic Museum. Records of Semitic Museum, 1891-1935 (inclusive).

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Pfeiffer, Robert H. (Robert Henry), 1892-1958

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Robert Henry Pfeiffer ( 1892-1958 ) was born in Bologna, Italy . He received his MA and PhD from Harvard University . He was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1916 and held a pastorate in Sanborn, New York, from 1916 to 1919 . In 1922, he was hired as a professor at Harvard University and he was appointed Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages in 1953 . He also served as a professor at Boston University's School of Theology . He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in anthropo...

Harvard University. Dept. of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations.

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Orne, John.

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Lyon, D. G.

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David Gordon Lyon (1852-1935), was a Hollis Professor of Divinity (1882-1910) and a Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages (1910-1922) at Harvard University. He was the founder and first curator of the Harvard Semitic Museum from 1892 to 1922. He served as honorary curator of the museum from 1922 to 1935. From the description of Papers of David Gordon Lyon, 1861, 1872-1935. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972827 David Gordon Lyon, H...

Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East

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The Harvard Semitic Museum was renamed the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East on April 15, 2020 to be more inclusive and accurately reflect the diversity of the museum’s collection. By housing ancient Near Eastern exhibitions, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East explores the rich history of cultures connected by the family of Semitic languages. Exhibitions include a full-scale replica of an ancient Israelite home, life sized casts of famous Mesopotamian monuments, authentic mummy...