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Kelsey Correspondents 1924-27: Excavation Patrons, Supporters & Staff
DRAMATIS PERSONAE 1825 | 1875 | 1925 | 1975
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Thomas Ashby FBA FSA (1874-1931)
Director of the British School at Rome (1906-1925), honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society; recommended A. M. Duff and D. B. Harden to B. Khun de Prorok (1924).
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David Leslie Askren MD (1875-1939)
Medical missionary in the Faiyum and local intermediary for the Karanis excavations; provided papyri and artifacts for F. W. Kelsey's collection in the 1920s.
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Auguste Audollent (1864-1943)
Professor of Latin at the Université Clermont (from 1893); specialist on Roman Carthage and epigrapher (tabellae defixionum); member of the Carthage Exploration Society; member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (from 1933).
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Harold Idris Bell (1879-1967)
Served the British Museum in the Department of Manuscripts (1903-1944), as Keeper (from 1929); middleman in sales of papyri.
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Louis Bertrand (1866-1941)
Member of the Académie française (seat 4, from 1925); ideologue and propagandist of French colonialism in North Africa.
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William Warner Bishop (1871-1955)
Head librarian at the University of Michigan (1915-1941); member of the university's Committee on Near East Research.
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Robert Woods Bliss (1875-1962)
Career diplomat; honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society; founder of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
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Arthur Edward Romilly Boak (1988-1962)
Professor of Classics at the University of Michigan (1914-1958), member of the university's Committee on Near East Research and participant in excavations at Karanis (from 1924).
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George Gough Booth (1864-1949)
Publisher and philanthropist.
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Campbell Bonner (1876-1954)
Professor of Classics at the University of Michigan; member of the university's Committee on Near East Research.
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Isaiah Bowman (1878-1950)
First Director of the American Geographical Society (1915-1935); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society; president of the Johns Hopkins University (1935-1948).
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Nicholas Frederic Brady (1876-1930)
Investor and philanthropist; holder of several papal honors (e.g. Duke of the Holy Roman Church); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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Guy Brunton OBE (1878-1948)
Egyptologist and archaeologist; student and close associate of W. M. Flinders Petrie; assistant keeper of the Cairo Museum (1931-1948).
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William Hepburn Buckler FBA (1867-1952)
Director of American excavations at Sardis (1910-1914) and in Anatolia (1922-1930).
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Marion LeRoy Burton (1874-1925)
President of the University of Michigan (1920-1925); member of the university's Committee on Near East Research.
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Orma Fitch Butler (1875-1938)
Participant during the Kelsey campaign (1925), along with her sister Anita “Nita” Lorine Butler; curator of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (1928-1938).
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Field Marshal Julian Hedworth George “Bungo” Byng de Vimy (1862-1935)
aka Viscount Byng of Vimy
Honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society; 12ᵗʰ Governor General of Canada (1921-1926).
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Réné Louis Victor Cagnat (1852-1937)
Professor at the College de France (from 1887), specialist in Latin epigraphy of North Africa; member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (from 1895); member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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Thomas Callander (1880-1959)
Professor of Classics at Queen's University (1903-1934).
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Ralph Russell Calder (1894-1969)
First recipient of the University of Michigan George G. Booth Traveling Fellowship in Architecture (1924); assistant architect at Carthage (1925).
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Mitchell Carroll (1870-1925)
Professor of Classics at George Washington University and Secretary of the Washington DC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA-DC); editor of the society's journal Art and Archaeology; member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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Louis Carton MD (1861-1924)
Military physician and amateur archaeologist; excavated at Dougga, Bulla Regia, Sousse, and the sanctuary of Tinnit at el-Kénissa; promoter and excavator of ancient Carthage; owner of the Villa Stella and the propriété Carton in the precinct of Tinnit and Ba‘l (adjacent to the propriété Regulus-Salammbô); in perpetual conflict with L. Poinssot of the Service des Antiquités.
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Gertrude Caton-Thompson (1888-1985)
Egyptologist and archaeologist, student of W. M. Flinders Petrie.
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Jean Victurnien Jacques de Chabannes La Palice (1867-1939)
aka Compte (“count”) de Chabannes
French aristocrat whose family had purchased the territory of Utica and environs; supported excavations by the abbé J. Moulard (his tutor) and by B. Khun de Prorok.
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abbé Jean-Baptiste Chabot (1860-1948)
Catholic abbot and Semitic epigrapher; member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (from 1917); editor of the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum and Répertoire d'Épigraphie Sémitique; key member of the Carthage Exploration Society and intermediary with French protectorate authorities.
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George Henry Chase (1874-1952)
Professor of Archaeology at Harvard University, excavator of the Argive Heraeum; although approached by B. Khun de Prorok in 1923, declined to lead the Franco-American excavations.
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Pierre Cintas (1908-1974)
Custom official in Algeria (1929-1931) and then Tunisia (1931-1946); excavated the propriété Lacour/Hervé sector at the Precinct of Tinnit and Ba‘l (1944-1947); later served in the Service des Antiquités (1947-1956) and then as director of the French archaeological mission until the end of the protectorate (1956-1961).
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William Lawrence Clements (1861-1934)
Regent of the University of Michigan (1909-1933).
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Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau (1846-1923)
- Philologist and amateur archaeologist while dragoman in the French foreign service, stationed in Jerusalem and Constantinople (from 1867); member of the Academie (1889); chair of Semitic epigraphy and antiquities at the Collège de France (1890)
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Rev. George Albert Cooke (1865-1939)
Professor of Scripture and Hebrew at the University of Oxford (from 1914).
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William Martin Conway, 1ˢᵗ Baron Conway of Allington (1856-1937)
Explorer, politician and art critic; honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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René Marie du Coudray de La Blanchère (1853-1896)
Director of the Service des antiquités (1885-1896, now the INP).
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Charles Trick Currelly (1876-1957)
Student of W. M. Flinders Petrie; first director of the Royal Ontario Museum (1914-1946); member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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Gen. Arthur William Currie GCMB KCB (1875-1933)
President and vice-chancellor of McGill University (1920-1933); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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Rev. Alfred-Louis Delattre MAfr (1850-1932)
Catholic missionary of the Pères Blancs (“White Fathers”); tireless excavator of Carthage; founder and curator of Musée Lavigerie de Saint-Louis (1875-1932); advisor to B. Khun de Prorok and F. W. Kelsey; honorary Chairman of the International Research Committee of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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Olga Pavlovna Demidova (1895-1982)
aka “princess” Olga Demidoff Troubetzkoy (or Trubetskoy)
Aristocratic who fled to Paris before the Russian Revolution; wife E. R. Stoever (m.1918-1930).
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William Douglas ( )
Assistant architect at Carthage (1925); fellow of the American Academy in Rome (1928).
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Réné Doumic (1860-1937)
Member of the Académie française (from 1909); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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Arnold Mackay Duff (1900-1976)
Alongside D. B. Harden, Fellow at the British School at Rome and participant during the Khun de Prorok campaign (1924).
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Lawrence John Lumley Dundas (1876-1961), The 2ⁿᵈ Marquess of Zetland
aka Lord Dundas (until 1892) or Earl of Ronaldshay (1892-1929)
President of the Royal Geographical Society London (1922-1925); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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René Dussaud (1868-1958)
Archaeologist and epigrapher; curator at the Musée du Louvre (1910-1938) and member of the Académie (from 1923).
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Halil Edhem Bey (1861-1938)
Assistant Director (from 1889) and then Director General of the Istanbul Museum (1910-1931).
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John Robert Effinger (1869-1933)
Professor of French at the University of Michigan (1892-1933); dean of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA 1915-1933); member of the university's Committee on Near East Research.
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Rodolphe François d'Erlanger (1872-1932)
aka Baron d'Erlanger
Artist and musicologist; honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society; provided accommodation for Franco-American excavators at his palace in Sidi bou Said (Dar Ennejma Ezzahra).
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Sir Arthur John Evans FRS FBA FBE (1851-1941)
Archaeologist and Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum (1884-1908);
President of the Society of Antiquaries of London (1914-1991); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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Hugh Gerard Evelyn-White (1884-1924)
Professor of Classics at the University of Leeds (1922-1924); excavator of the tomb of Tutankhamun; died just before the initial Karanis campaign.
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Col. William Eric Fowler (1874-1956)
Diplomat and philanthropist; trustee of the Washington DC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA-DC); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
Correspondent with F. W. Kelsey; philanthropist and donor of the core collection of the Freer Gallery in the National Museum of Asian Art of the Smithsonian Institution
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George F. French (1899-1984?)
Draftsman for the Kelsey campaign (1925); Fellow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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John Garstang (1876-1956)
Professor of Archaeology at the University of Liverpool, director of the Department of Antiquities in British Mandate Palestine (1920-1926)
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Paul Gielly (ca.1875- )
Tax and customs official during the French protectorate and amateur archaeologist; friend of F. Icard and secretary to L. Carton; co-discovered the precinct of Tinnit and Ba‘l (1921); co-owned the propriété Regulus-Salammbô.
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Paul Frédéric Gauckler (1866-1911)
Director of the Service des antiquités (1896-1905, now the INP).
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Louis Constant de Gonzague Ryckmans (1887-1968)
- Philologist and instructor at the Aartsbisschoppelijk Groot Seminarie in Mechelen (1920-1929), then professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (1930-1958); co-editor of the Répertoire d'Épigraphie Sémitique.
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Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (1875-1966)
President of the National Geographic Society; editor of the magazine National Geographic (1899-1954); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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Stephane Gsell (1864-1932)
Professor at the Collège de France (1912-1932); member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (from 1923), member of the Carthage Exploration Society
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Albert Auguste Gabriel Hanotaux (1853-1944)
Member of the Académie française (from 1897); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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Donald Benjamin Harden (1901-1994)
Craven Fellow of the British School at Rome and participant during the Khun de Prorok (1924) and Kelsey campaigns (1925); donated ceramics to the British Museum (1925); held a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Ann Arbor to prepare excavation reports for the University of Michigan (1926-1928); served as assistant (1929-1945) and then Keeper of Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum (1945-1956); accessioned additional ceramics for the Ashmolean (1933); published a still-valid typology of Punic ceramics (1937).
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William Christopher Hayes (1903-1963)
Assistant curator (1936-1952) then Curator of the Egyptian Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1952-1963); participant during the Kelsey campaign (1925).
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Charles A. Hoeing (1871-1938)
Professor of Latin at the University of Rochester (1905-1929) and dean of its College for Men (1914-1929).
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Myron Timothy Herrick (1854-1929)
US ambassador to France (1912-1914, 1921-1929).
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Mary Ann Horton (1864-1947)
Wife of H. H. Rackham and trustee of his estate.
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Rev. Edmond Huguenot MAfr (1850-1933)
Catholic missionary of the Pères Blancs (“White Fathers”); archaeologist of African prehistory; founder and curator of the Musée préhistorique de Ouargla; advisor to B. Khun de Prorok.
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Harry Burns Hutchins (1847-1930)
Fourth president of the University of Michigan (1909-1920).
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Henri Eugene Xavier Louis Hyvernat (1858-1941)
First Professor of Oriental Studies at the Catholic University of America.
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François Oscar Icard (1875-ca.1941)
Police inspector during the French protectorate, antiquarian and amateur archaeologist; associate of L. Carton and his co-excavator at the sanctuary of Tinnit at el-Kénissa; after buying Punic stelae surreptitiously for years, co-discovered the precinct of Tinnit and Ba‘l in Carthage (1921) and co-owned the propriété Regulus-Salammbô.
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Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand (1855-1932)
French ambassador to the US (1903-1925); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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Maurice Charbonnet Kellerman (1883-1943)
Cinematographer for the Khun de Prorok and Kelsey campaigns (1924-1925) and for Lost Gods (1930).
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Francis Willey Kelsey (1858-1927)
Professor of Classics (Latin) at the University of Michigan (1889-1927), and at the American Academy in Rome (1900-1901) President of the American Philological Association (1906-1907) and of the Archaeological Institute of America (1907-1912); driving force behind the Antiquities Act (1906); director of excavations in the propriété Regulus-Salammbô sector of the Precinct of Tinnit and Ba‘l (1925)
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Mary Isabelle Badger Kelsey (1862-1944)
Wife of F. W. Kelsey.
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Alice Josephine Kenny (1899-1955?/1962?)
Self-styled “Countess” Khun de Prorok (1923-1927); remarried in 1930 to P. G. Lawson-Johnston (1894-1955), who adopted her daughters Maureen Bune (1924-2013) and Denise Bouché Fitch (1925-2022).
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Dennis J. Kenny (1903/4-1925)
Brother to Alice Kenny; killed during a dispute over cab fare in Queens, New York.
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William Francis Kenny (1868-1951)
Wealthy building contractor and philanthropist; supporter of Alfred E. Smith as governor (D-NY) and as presidential candidate (1928); owner of a private roof-top club frequented by Tammany Hall politicians (The Tiger Room); father-in-law of B. Khun de Prorok (1923-1927); honorary member and patron of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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Frederick George Kenyon GBE KCB TD FBA FSA (1863-1952)
Director of the British Museum (1909-1931); member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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William Lyon Mackenzie King OM CMG PC (1874-1950)
Tenth Prime Minister of Canada; honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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Francis Byron Khun de Prorok (1896-1954)
aka Francis Victor/Byron Kuhn
Socialite and self-styled “count” whose marriage to Alice Kenny introduced him to the New York City political elite; promoted excavations in Carthage and Utica (1921-1925), held the C. E. Norton Memorial Lectureship of the Archaeological Institute of America (1922-1923), and led the so-called “Franco-American” campaign at the precinct of Tinnit and Ba‘l (1924), which continued under F. W. Kelsey.
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Pierre Lacau (1873-1963)
French director of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities (1914-1936).
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Robert Lansing (1864-1928)
US Secretary of State (1915-1920); president of the Washington DC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (1919-1928); member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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Rev. Alexis Lamaître MAfr (1864-1939)
Archbishop of Carthage and primate of Africa (1922-1939); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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Raymond François Lantier (1886-1980)
Served in the Service des Antiquités during the French protectorate (until 1926); Assistant curator (1926-1933) then Curator of the Musée d'Archéologie nationale de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1933-1956).
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Rev. Gabriel-Guillaume Lapyere MAfr (1877-1952)
Catholic missionary of the Pères Blancs (“White Fathers”), excavator not only of the propriété Carton but also the area under the former rue de Numidie at the Precinct of Tinnit and Ba‘l (1934-36).
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John Bell Larner (1858-1931)
Prominent lawyer in Washinton DC and philanthropist; vice-president and general counsel of the Washington Loan & Trust Co. (1889-1917).
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Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935)
aka Lawrence of Arabia
Archaeologist and key figure in the Arab Revolt (1916-1918).
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Capt. Percival “Percy” Glen Lawson-Johnston (1894-1955)
Second husband of Alice Kenny.
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Paul Léon (1874-1962),
Member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts (1922-1962) and its Director General (1928-1933), professor of the Collège de France (1933); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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Mark (née Abraham Mordechai) Lidzbarski (1868-1928)
Professor at the University of Greifswald (1907-1917) and Göttingen (from 1917).
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Alfred Henry Lloyd (1864-1927)
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan (1891-1927), Dean of Graduate School (1915-1927); member of the university's Committee on Near East Research.
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John Ellerton Lodge (1876-1942)
Director of the Freer Gallery of Art (1920-1942).
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Bertrand Marie Ponce François Raphael Lucinge (1898-1943)
Self-styled “Prince of Cystria”; professional driver and road racer; associate of E. de Waldeck and B. Khun de Prorok.
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Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister (1870-1950)
Director of excavations for the Palestine Exploration Fund (1901-1909) and professor of archaeology at University College Dublin (1909-1943)
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Robert Alexander MacLean (1878-1964)
Professor of Classics at the University of Rochester; pioneer of aerial archaeology.
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Ralph Van Deman Magoffin (1874-1942)
Professor of Classics at New York University (1923-1930); president of Archaeological Institute of America (1921-1931); member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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Alfred Merlin (1876-1965)
Director of the Service des antiquités in Tunisia (1906-1920, now the INP); curator of the Musée du Louvre (1921-1946); member of the Carthage Exploration Society; member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (from 1928).
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John Campbell Merriam (1869-1945)
President of the Carnegie Institute of Washington DC (1921-1938); member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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Charles Rufus Morey (1877-1955)
Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University (1924-1945); member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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abbé Jacques Moulard (18??- 19??)
Catholic abbot and dilletante excavator of Utica with B. Khun de Prorok (1920s); tutor of the Chabannes family.
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Charles Murphy PC (1862-1935)
Postmaster General of Canada; honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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John Linton Myres OBE FBA (1869-1954)
Professor of archaeology at Oxford University; honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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Maurice Nahman (1868-1948)
Dealer of papyri in Cairo.
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Horton O'Neil (1907-1997)
Teen-aged assistant to B. Khun de Prorok at both Carthage and Utica (1924-1925); exported multiple steamer trunks of artifacts, later donated to the Harvard University Department of Classics (now accessioned into the Harvard Art Museums), as well as to the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.
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Enoch Ernest Peterson (1891-1978)
Participant at Antioch in Pisidia (1924), Karanis (1925), and recorder of finds at Carthage (1925); field director at Karanis (1926-1935); director of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (1950-1961).
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William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS FBA (1853-1942)
Egyptologist and Professor of Archaeology at University College London (1892-1933); developed systematic methodologies for archaeology and for the preservation of artifacts.
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Colette Durand Picard (1913-1999)
Curator of the site of Carthage; wife of G. Charles Picard.
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Gilbert Charles Picard (1913-1998)
Member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (1932-1965), Director of the Service des Antiquitiés until the end of the protectorate (1942-1956); excavator at the precinct of Tinnit and Ba‘l with P. Cintas (1944-1947).
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Louis Poinssot (1879-1967)
Director of the Service des Antiquités (1921-1942, now INP); member of the Carthage Exploration Society; often in open conflict with leaders of non-governmental archaeological initiatives, both private (e.g. L. Carton) and religious (e.g. A.-L. Delattre, J.-B. Chabot).
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William Mitchell Ramsay FBA (1851-1939)
Professor of Archeology and New Testament at the University of Aberdeen (1886-1911); collaborator at Antioch in Pisidia (1924).
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Horace Hatcher Rackham (1958-1933)
Lawyer and early shareholder in the Ford Motor Company; philanthropist and patron of the University of Michigan Committee on Near East Research.
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Benjamin Rush Rhees (1860-1939)
President of the University of Rochester (1900-1935).
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George Andrew Reisner, Jr. (1867-1942)
Professor of Archaeology at Harvard University (1905-1942).
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Jules Renault (1879?-1921)
Architect and amateur archaeologist; editor of Cahiers d'archéologie tunisienne; mentor of B. Kuhn de Prorok; inhabitant of Hill of Juno ruins; namesake of the Renault-De Waldeck Memorial Museum (1924).
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Gerard Rey de Villette (1899- )
Student the École des Sciences Politiques de Paris; participant at Carthage and Utica (1924-1925); family friend and assistant to B. Khun de Prorok.
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William Ridgeway FBA FRAI (1853-1926)
Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge University (from 1892); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society; supported participation of D. B. Harden.
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Frank Egleston Robbins (1894-1963)
Professor of Classics at the University of Michigan, editor at the University of Michigan Press (1930-1953); member of the university's Committee on Near East Research.
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David Moore Robinson (1880-1958)
Professor of Classics and Archaeology at Johns Hopkins University (1905-1947) and the University of Mississippi (1949-1958); member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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Edward Denison Ross CIE (1871-1940)
First Director of the School of Oriental studies (now SOAS, 1916-1937); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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Orlando Warren “Pip” Qualley (1897-1988)
Professor of Classics at Luther College (1918-1963), participant at Karanis.
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Henry Arthur Sanders (1868-1956)
Professor of Classics at the University of Michigan (1899-1939); member of the university's Committee on Near East Research; editor of the University of Michigan Studies: Humanistic Series.
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Suzanne “Zha Zha” Saroukhanoff (1907- ),
Second wife of B. Khun de Prorok (m.1927–pre-1931); son Byron Cyril (1928-1938).
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Mortimer Loeb Schiff (1877-1931)
Banker and philanthropist; leader of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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Maj. Frederick Charles Shorey (1877-1932)
Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society (FRGS), representing McGill University during the Utica campaigns of Khun de Prorok (1924-25).
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Frederick George Isaac Singer (1897-1971)
Naval attaché then assistant trade commissioner of the American Embassy in Paris (until 1924); early promoter of de Prorok's “Franco-American“ excavations in Carthage; employed by the DuPont Co. Tariff Division (1924-1958).
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James Leslie Starkey FSA (1895-1938)
Student of W. M. Flinders Petrie; archaeologist for the British School of Archaeology in Egypt (BSAE); field director at Karanis (1924-1925) and Lachish (1932-38).
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Maj. William Edward “Ted” Royal Stoever (1887-1930)
Field director during Michigan excavations at Carthage (1925).
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George Robert Swain (1866-1947)
Staff photographer for the University of Michigan (1915-1947); photographer for the Carthage excavations (1925), accompanied by his son, Robert Rice Swain (1905-1981), who served as mechanic.
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Ali Suefi (fl. 1925)
Skilled Egyptian foreman employed by W. M. Flinders Petrie.
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Marie Ernestine Marie Elise Ernestine Émilienne Thélu (1873-1956)
aka Mme. Carton
Supporter of her late husband's interests; often in conflict with L. Poinssot of the Service des Antiquités.
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Marie Joseph Eusèbe Vassel (1844-1927)
Journalist and scholar of Semitic languages; editor of Revue tunisienne; historian of Jewish-Arab relations in Tunisia.
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Gerald Avery Wainwright (1879-1964)
Egyptologist and archaeologist; associate of W. M. Flinders Petrie; chief inspector of Middle Egypt in the Antiquities Service (1921-1924).
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Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927)
Fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1907-1927).
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Xavier Edgard de Waldeck (1897-1923)
Self-styled “prince”; co-director of Carthage excavations with B. Khun de Prorok (and his best man); namesake of the Renault-De Waldeck Memorial Museum on the Hill of Juno (1924).
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Henry Stephens Washington (1867-1934)
Member of the Geophysical Laboratory in the Carnegie Institute of Washington DC (1912-1934).
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Columbus C. Wells (1903-1990)
Participant in the Kelsey campaign (1925).
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Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor (1844-1937)
Named to the Institute de France (1910) and permanent secretary of the Académie des Beaux-Arts (1914); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
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Theodor Wiegand (1864-1936)
Director of the Antikensammlung Berlin (from 1911); president of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI 1932-1936).
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Lee White (1886-1971)
Journalist and editor with the Detroit News; associate of G. G. Booth.
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Adolf Wilhelm (1864-1950)
Professor of Classics at the University of Vienna (1905-1933).
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John Garrett Winter (1881-1956)
Professor of Classics at the University of Michigan (1928-1951); member of the university's Committee on Near East Research; director of the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1929-1950, later the KMA); editor of the University of Michigan Studies: Humanistic Series.
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Charles Doolittle Wolcott (1850-1927)
Third director of the U.S. Geological Survey (1894-1907); fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1907-1927).
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Frederick James Woodbridge (1900-1974)
Fellow (1923-1925) and later Fullbright scholar and resident at the American Academy in Rome (1951-1952); sometime Boyer research fellow in Classical Archaeology and lead architect for the Kelsey campaign (1925)
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Charles Leonard Woolley FSA OBE MC (1880-1960)
Archaeologist affiliated with the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford University) and Penn Museum (University of Pennsylvania); director of excavations at Ur, Carchemish, al-Mina, etc.
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William Hoyt Worrell (1879-1952)
Director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem (1919-1925, now AIAR); professor of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan (1925-1948).
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Shmuel Yeivin (1896-1982)
Student of W. M. Flinders Petrie at University College London, first director of the Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums (1948-1961, now the IAA).
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Saad Zaghloul Pasha (Sa‘d ibn Ibrāhīm Zaġlūl Paša, 1859-1927)
Key figure in the Egyptian Revolution (1919), prime minister of independent Egypt (26 Jan–24 Nov 1924).
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