Arthur Fairbanks
Arthur Fairbanks (November 13, 1864 Hanover, New Hampshire – January 13, 1944 Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an art historian and administrator who lived and worked in the United States. From 1908 to 1925, he was director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Biography
He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1886 and attended the Yale Divinity School and the Union Theological Seminary. He also studied in Germany, receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg in 1890. He was on the faculty of Dartmouth College and Yale and Cornell Universities until 1900, when he became professor of Greek literature and archaeology at the University of Iowa. In 1906, he was appointed professor of Greek and Greek archaeology in the University of Michigan. He was appointed curator of classical art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1907, and in 1908 became director there. He supervised the museum's move to its current Fenway location. He retired in 1925. He was a member of many classical and learned societies.
Works
- Introduction to Sociology (1896)
- The Mythology of Greece and Rome (1907)
- Handbook of Greek Religion (1910)
- Greek Gods and Heroes (1915)
Notes
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References
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- Arthur Fairbanks at Find a Grave
External links
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- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from Collier's Encyclopedia
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- 1864 births
- 1944 deaths
- American art historians
- Directors of museums in the United States
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Dartmouth College alumni
- Yale Divinity School alumni
- Union Theological Seminary (New York City) alumni
- University of Freiburg alumni
- University of Iowa faculty
- University of Michigan faculty
- 19th-century historians
- 20th-century American historians