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GARDNER, PERCY (1846– )

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

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